Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombing attacks and terrorist threats in the United States and abroad.
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, weighs in on how to reduce the US debt, jumpstart the economy, and develop a more predictable monetary policy.
Niall Ferguson, a Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and a noted author, discusses former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, who helped end the Cold War and was known as the “Iron Lady” for her uncompromising style, died recently.
Joshua Rauh, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, warns of a coming national pension crisis that could bankrupt many US state and local governments.
Caroline Hoxby, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses why some of America's top academic achievers are missing out on the chance to attend the best universities.
Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson discuss how aligning teacher salaries with effectiveness is necessary to improve the efficiency of school spending. Paying teachers according to effectiveness is particularly important when faced with budget pressures.
Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, discusses his picks for a hypothetical 2016 GOP presidential tournament/race.
George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chair of the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, says that he believes climate change is a real problem and that even skeptics could be convinced that ‘we need an insurance policy.’
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