There is no way around it: reforming our schools means reforming the teachers’ unions. By Hoover fellow Terry M. Moe.

Have we heard the last of Al Gore’s “New Populism”? No such luck. By Hoover media fellow Bob Zelnick.

George W. Bush, it seems plausible to argue, wouldn’t have been elected president in 2000 if George H. W. Bush hadn’t been elected president in 1988. And George H. W. Bush wouldn’t have been elected president in 1988 if Ronald Reagan hadn’t invited him to be Reagan’s running mate in 1980. Hoover fellow Edwin Meese III describes how Reagan decided to issue that 1980 invitation–starting the Bushes on their way.

A new generation of technocratic black mayors has emerged with a pragmatic, bottom-line approach to governing. Tamar Jacoby hails these new leaders for their commitment to fiscal solvency and building cities that work—for both blacks and whites.

America’s cities are being reborn. Who are the midwives? Cops. By Hoover fellow Gary S. Becker.

As the negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol drag on, environmentalists, corporations, and governments are lobbying in backrooms for provisions that will benefit their own interests. Our interests would be best met if the protocol were scrapped altogether. By Bruce Yandle.

Despite the magnitude of technological change that we have experienced in the last 30 years, Hoover fellow Newt Gingrich argues, the true technological revolution has only just begun.

How should we deal with the reality of a United States that a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall is the world’s ideological reference, economic innovator, and only global superpower? Hoover fellow Ken Jowitt offers some suggestions.

Although the term ethnic cleansing became part of the lexicon only with the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the brutal practices the term describes occurred with numbing frequency during the past century. Hoover fellow Norman M. Naimark on what causes ethnic cleansing—and how it can be stopped.

While most nations in Europe are struggling with sluggish economic growth and high unemployment rates, the Netherlands is booming. Hoover fellow Melvyn Krauss and Lee R. Thomas explain what the rest of Europe can learn from “the Dutch way.”

Ronald Reagan played his best scene not in Hollywood but while in the White House. By Hoover fellow and former governor of California Pete Wilson.

During the economic crisis of the 1930s, many expected a socialist revolution. The revolution never came. Why? The man in the White House co-opted the left. By Hoover fellow Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks.

Images from the Hoover Archives trace the trajectory of Romanian history in the twentieth century. The selection provided here opens a window on a nation in the process of defining itself.

Images from the Hoover Archives trace the trajectory of Romanian history in the twentieth century. The selection provided here opens a window on a nation in the process of defining itself. Queen Marie of Romania, 1875–1938