It’s sort of an update of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s Cold War doctrine that right-wing regimes can evolve for the better in a way left-wing totalitarian ones cannot...
...[I]t’s open season on predictions about how the decision will shape the political debate and the direction of health care policy. Here’s what I see when I look into the crystal ball...
As of February 1, 2011, U.S. public debt stood at $14.056 trillion. Of this, $9.413 trillion is tradeable debt held by the public, both domestic and foreign. The remaining $4.644 trillion is held by federal trust funds and other government entities...
Writing in The Wilson Quarterly, Samuelson weighs the left and the right’s explanations of the crisis and finds them both wanting...But Samuelson misunderstands the important difference between creditors and equity holders...
It’s another case that seems to me to beg the question of how we define success as we navigate the benefits and perils of long-term detention, transfers to foreign governments, and criminal trials of various sorts...
[Abbas Milani's] new book The Shah was published a few weeks ago by Palgrave MacMillan. I sat down with him in his office at the Hoover Institution to talk about what’s happening right now in Egypt...
In recognition of President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, we’ll hear about Reagan’s legacy as a transformative President and as an inspiration to public service, with author/Hoover Institution Research Fellow Kiron Skinner...
GUESTS: Barry Ritholz, author of "Bailout Nation"; Kiron Skinner, Hoover; Greg Zuckerman, author of "The Greatest Trade Ever"; David Drucker, Roll Call...
Update on Egypt with Tarek Masoud of Harvard Kennedy School, Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University [and the Hoover Institution], Emad Shahin, Anthony Shadid of 'The New York Times' & Neil MacFarquhar of 'The New York Times'...
with Eric Hanushekvia Education Front Blog (Dallas Morning News)
Monday, January 31, 2011
Eric Hanushek was one of the participants at the school finance conference that Houston businessman and Education Front guest blogger Charles Miller put together in Austin last week...I asked him to follow up on his thoughts in this Q&A...
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama said we need to replace No Child Left Behind with a law that’s “more flexible and focused on what’s best for our kids..."
The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Education Next’s 10th anniversary, in which the editors assessed the school reform movement’s victories and challenges to see just how successful reform efforts have been...
The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Education Next’s 10th anniversary, in which the editors assessed the school reform movement’s victories and challenges to see just how successful reform efforts have been...
