When Donald Trump announced he was running for president on June 16, the idea seemed faintly ridiculous. The Washington Post said that he faced “an uphill battle to be taken seriously by his rivals, political watchers and the media.”
Hoover Institution fellow Kori Schake breaks down the key parts of the Iran deal and President Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy in the Middle East.
Authoritative party documents refer to the prescribed dynamic of elite politics in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as its “collective leadership system.”
Science encompasses a vast body of knowledge—the boring stuff we memorize in tenth-grade chemistry class, for example–but more important, it defines the methods by which this body of information continuously grows and is refined and organized.
Nearly three years ago, testifying before a congressional hearing, I observed that “the [Anwar] Al-Awlaki case will be someday the subject of a truly wonderful book. It’s a very complicated and interesting history.”
After months of passivity, the Obama administration is on the cusp of bringing criminal charges against Chinese cyberspies in retaliation for wreaking havoc on U.S. networks.
I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity—regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression.
Among this fall's most pressing K-12 education issues is the November vote by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education about whether to stick with MCAS or replace it with national tests developed by the Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers (PARCC).
Back To School, Morning Education Style: Stay tuned for a busy fall in D.C. and beyond. The Education Department will be issuing a new round of School Improvement Grant data, a final rule that aims to improve teacher preparation programs and a comprehensive report about the Obama administration’s signature Race to the Top program, among other things.
Paul E. Peterson is professor of government and director of the Harvard Program on Education Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He’s also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In a column, he discusses the federal government’s expanding role in student discipline.
