Of all the canards, straw-men, and flat-out silliness flung at immigration control, the idea that we must keep immigrants out in the name of national security is surely one of the worst.
When critics of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act are confronted with the fact that the Act delays the President's ability to implement U.S. sanctions relief under the Iran Deal for 60 days, they sometimes switch to arguments about why the politics of the Review Act are nonetheless bad.
Let’s be clear about what the Iranian deal does not achieve: it does not prevent Iran from getting the bomb; it does not in any reliable way extend breakout capability to a year; and there is zero probability sanctions will “snap back” if Iran violates the agreement.
As described in PRC media, the workings of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo under General Secretary Xi Jinping closely follow patterns set down during the 10-year tenure of his predecessor Hu Jintao.
A week from now, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is expected to formally announce his candidacy for the White House. When that happens, the Republican field will stand at 16.
Holier-than-thou Whole Foods has admitted cheating its customers by systematically overcharging in stores in California and New York. Equally dishonest are its false claims about the superiority of organic foods.
How does immigration intersect with issues of national security? The most obvious answer is border security, but too often that is the only answer. The state of the conversation among policymakers is lacking.
On July 31, Magnolia Pictures and directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) will release Best of Enemies, a film based on the famous 1968 political debate between leftist writer and polemicist Gore Vidal and conservative TV host William F. Buckley Jr. The archive of William F. Buckley’s thirty-three-year-long television series Firing Line is among the most used collections at Hoover Library & Archives; it includes broadcasts, transcripts, and administrative files, some of which illuminate the notorious animosity between Buckley and Vidal.
Some time ago, I began cataloging a book from our backlog. Entitled Das deutsche Reich: ungekurzte Sonderausgabe (The German Reich, unabridged special edition), it was written by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and published in Hamburg in 1934. As always, I searched first to determine whether Hoover or Stanford already had a copy. When none was forthcoming, I then searched the national bibliographical database, WorldCat, to see which other libraries have a copy. It is not listed in WorldCat. I also checked several European libraries but did not find any copies there either. Given that the author was prolific, I found this somewhat strange and began to look at the book more closely...
David had loaned his friend John $500 last year, $500 the year before and $500 the year before that. David knows John's income potential is such that he would never pay any of the loans back.
Here’s a regional riddle: What do Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq have in common? Hint: They’re all home to local militant groups, many of whom are on the U.S. designated terrorist list. Are
President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran presents an array of political challenges and opportunities for the Republican presidential contenders, while clarifying the foreign policy debate with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The nuclear deal between world powers and Iran offers the prospect that the United States and the Islamic Republic may embark on a new, less hostile relationship after 36 years of open enmity.
Yesterday afternoon at Stanford, we recorded an episode of Uncommon Knowledge with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and her piano teacher, George Barth, a professor of music at the university.
