Is the 2020 American election destined for a decisive result or a series of legal challenges that will delay the outcome and throw the nation into tumult, possibly sparking a constitutional crisis? With Election Day now less than five weeks away, Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane and Hoover visiting fellow John Yoo—a constitutional law expert—discuss the various strains on America’s voting system.
Americans have enough divisive matters to worry about — not least a potentially contested presidential election — without being driven crazy over a Supreme Court appointment. A little calm is in order. The appointment to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is certainly important. And it’s easy to understand why most Americans think the choice should be made by whoever is elected in November, especially given what happened — or did not happen — with President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016.
America’s sporting events sorely lack in-person audiences – watching football, basketball and baseball (yes, even tennis and hockey), one misses the ambient noise and added excitement that comes with a crowd cheering and jeering.
A correspondent sent me a link to the Belgian Doctors' open letter on covid-19. I found it original, documented, and worth reading and thinking about. It is at least an important contribution to a debate -- and one of its big points, we should be having a debate. Science is still quite uncertain about much regarding this disease, and science never did know much about economic and public policy. I'm not totally convinced, but it has several interesting ideas that I had not considered before.
On September 15, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy had a virtual discussion about both Covid-19 and the views of the two major presidential candidates. The moderator was Gopi Shah Goda, deputy director of, and senior fellow at, SIEPR and the two interviewees were Kevin Hassett, who had been chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Trump and Austan Goolsbee, who had had the same job under President Obama.
Virtually every law passed by the California legislature, every regulation enacted by state agencies, and every executive order from the governor—no matter how well-intentioned—create unintended consequences.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the newly released classified information concerning the FISA warrant as well as information concerning Hillary Clinton's involvement in the Russian investigation.
In early September, researchers Corey DeAngelis and Christos Makridis released the results of a study they spearheaded, which found that “school districts in places with stronger teachers’ unions are much less likely to offer full-time, in-person instruction this fall.”
