Last month Dr. Mary Cox, an economic historian at All Souls College, Oxford University, who will be a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution in the 2015-16 academic year, published a revealing study of the effects of malnutrition on German schoolchildren between 1914 and 1924. “Hunger Games: Or How the Allied Blockade in the First World War Deprived German Children of Nutrition and Allied Food Aid Subsequently Saved Them,” published in the spring edition of the Economic History Review, draws on newly discovered archival records to explore the lasting effects of the war and Allied shipping embargo on a generation of German schoolchildren who frequently went hungry in the war and postwar years.
Late this past May, Thomas and Ida Saxton brought suit against the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the Northern District of Iowa, and thus opened up a new front in the long-running litigation over the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
A former CIA operative and a naval academy teacher, Alice Miller shares her decision at the age of 50 to transition from male to female, and to live a life she calls “true to herself.”
Join Hoover Institution fellow Carson Bruno and others as they explore the biggest, most controversial, and sometimes surprising news and political issues.
In an engrossing interview with Bill Kristol, the conservative scholar, author and former Harvard professor Peter Berkowitz paints a dismal picture of our universities.
This week, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will head to three European nations just a week before he’s expected to officially announce his presidential candidacy. Foreign trips can often prove problematic for potential candidates. Here’s what we can expect from Bush’s voyage.
!["Food is Ammunition--Don't Waste It," 1918](https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_teaser/public/news/poster_us_02886_0.jpg ""Food is Ammunition--Don't Waste It," 1918")
