The Force awakens. For the first time since the financial crisis — for the first time, indeed, since June 2006 — the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates.
The political left has been trying to run other people’s lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have.
The US Federal Reserve has finally, after almost a decade of steadfast adherence to very low interest rates, hiked its federal funds rate – the rate from which all other interest rates in the economy take their cue – by 25 basis points.
A quick response without getting into the weeds about why I find Senator Feinstein's post so disheartening. Let me be clear: I agree with her normative position that the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" were morally wrong.
The omnibus spending bill recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama delays the onset of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s so-called “Cadillac plan tax” for two years.
Black Lives Matter and other, related groups are still demanding that Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel step down well before his term expires. It appears that Emanuel did not release for over a year a police video showing the possibly unjustified shooting of criminal suspect Laquan McDonald.
Here’s why Bernie Sanders is frustrated. Like a Rodney Dangerfield without the red tie (or comic relief), the Vermont senator feels he gets no respect from the party whose presidential nomination he seeks (even if he’s not a registered member of said party).
I’ve had it with celebrities opining on subjects about which they have strong feelings but no expertise. Examples include Kevin Costner testifying about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill before a congressional committee and Meryl Streep’s uninformed public opposition to agriculturally important pesticides.
Last month, two bills were introduced in the House and Senate that address mens rea reform. “Mens rea” is a Latin phrase sometimes translated as “guilty mind,” and refers to the issue of intent in crime.
On December 11, I chaired a panel at the Hoover Institution as part of a day-long celebration of George Shultz's 95th birthday. On the panel I chaired were, in order of speaking, David Davenport of Hoover, Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, Kiron Skinner of Hoover and Carnegie Mellon, and Condoleezza Rice of Hoover.
Today’s New York Times reports that Apple is pushing back on British demands for back doors to encrypted information in part by arguing that “Law enforcement today has access to more data — data which they can use to prevent terrorist attacks, solve crimes and help bring perpetrators to justice — than ever before in the history of our world.”
The Apple App Store and Google Play are chocked-full of educational apps for your kids, some excellent and some schlock. Separating the wheat from the chaff is no small task; thankfully Graphite (a spin-off from Common Sense Media) does an excellent job highlighting and reviewing the better ones.
Freakonomics has a nicely balanced treatment of the immigration controversy, highlighting the thinking of "open borders" advocate Alex Tabarrok, an economics professor at George Mason University and one of the two bloggers at marginalrevolution.com.
As Nirbhaya, Jyoti became a symbol of civic convenience that fit with Indian society’s patriarchy. We know her name. Let’s say it aloud, again and again.
I have received several interesting responses to my post earlier this week on different types of proportionality and Israel's 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Two, in particular, offer useful additional information I want to share with readers.
Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe, informed the press last week that Russia is intensifying its military activities in the Suwalki Gap, a sixty-mile stretch of terrain in northern Poland.
You might remember Mohamedou Ould Salahi—Guantanamo detainee, author and memoirist, subject of a brutal interrogation, important source on Al Qaeda, and all around fascinating human puzzle.
interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Friday, December 18, 2015
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the biggest education stories of 2015 (and 2016), how curriculum reform fared over the last twelve months, and the year’s best research studies.
Congress has avoided authorizing the war against the self-described Islamic State for nearly a year and a half, but it had no problem voting Friday to spend billions more on it.
Closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, which Barack Obama has been determined to do since his first day in office, does have its benefits. Back in 2013, the Defense Department’s Office of the Comptroller released a report revealing that Gitmo costs $2.7 million annually per inmate, making it the most expensive prison ever.
As winter approaches in Hanover, N.H., the admissions season at Dartmouth College is in full swing. By the start of the new year, the college’s admissions office will receive roughly 20,000 applications from talented scholars vying to join the Class of 2020.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump—who leads the other candidates by about 20 points—released a statement on Dec. 7 calling for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
[Subscription/Registration Required] This week’s GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas turned into a contest of “Can You Top This?” with each candidate vying to show how tough they would be against the Islamic State group and terrorism.
Henry Kissinger, a Jew who was born and grew up in Nazi Germany, fled with his family to the United States and returned as a soldier to witness the horrors of the concentration camps.
