France and Germany have clearly put the United States on notice that they cannot be counted on in an emergency. We should face this fact soberly and without animus. By Hoover fellow Russell A. Berman.
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.
Reconstructing Iraq as a responsible and lawful state will represent the most costly and formidable task the United States has taken on in decades. By Hoover fellow Larry Diamond.
The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education has just issued a comprehensive assessment of American public education. Its conclusion? America’s schools continue to fail our children. By Hoover fellow Chester E. Finn Jr.
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.
The federal deficit is once again beginning to swell. Should we expect interest rates to spike as a result? In a word, no. Hoover fellow Kenneth L. Judd explains.
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.
In this era of managed care, doctors are under constant pressure to cut corners to appease insurance providers. The result? Patients often suffer. By Hoover fellow Philip R. Alper.
When a zealous Congress decided to launch a crusade to “prevent another Enron,” it could only mean one thing: bad, poorly conceived legislation. Hoover fellow Richard Epstein explains.
The task for legal conservatism? To preserve what we have and to regain as much as possible of what we have lost—a society that attains a more wholesome balance between the freedom of the individual and the legitimate demands of community. By Hoover fellow Robert H. Bork.
South Korea may soon have to decide whether it wishes to stand with the United States, which is responsible for much of Seoul’s prosperity, or stand alone instead. By Hoover fellow Richard V. Allen.
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.
