Post-war Iraq is a country with desperate needs—and those needs must be met quickly. Hoover national fellow Lisa D. Cook on the challenges of rebuilding Iraq.

Post-war Iraq is a tinderbox. How can we prevent a conflagration? By Hoover fellow Michael McFaul.

Saddam Hussein has been purged from Iraq—now his legacy must be purged as well. By Hoover fellow Timothy Garton Ash.

Over the past 30 years public school teachers have been receiving more education—yet student achievement scores continue to languish. What has gone wrong? By Hoover fellows Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa.

Why should we support school choice programs? Because they work. By Hoover fellow John E. Chubb.

Welfare reform has been an unqualified success. Why? Because the federal government let the individual states decide how best to deal with their welfare recipients. Now some members of Congress are calling for more federal control over state welfare programs. Hoover fellows Jeffrey Jones and Thomas MaCurdy explain why we should leave well enough alone.

The Bush administration is reining in some of the most aggressive anti-environmentalists in the GOP. Margaret Kriz explains why.

Which global players have power today—and which are likely to acquire it in the coming decades? By Niall Ferguson.

How the Bush administration has adapted to a post–Cold War and post–September 11 world. By Hoover fellow Ken Jowitt.

Can Russia embrace democracy under a leader who doesn’t believe in it? By Hoover fellow Michael McFaul.

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin, Hoover fellow Arnold Beichman recalls the atrocities Stalin perpetrated—and the allure he held for craven Western intellectuals.