California high school social science and history teachers gathered at Stanford recently to take part in a professional development course on Latin America and the Cold War.

Hoover Institution fellow Markos Kounalakis talks about how violent and weak states transform into stable ones.

To stanch the flow of illegal aliens, pour U.S. foreign aid into improving their home countries.

For three decades beginning in the mid-1970s, the world experienced a remarkable expansion of democracy—the so-called third wave—with authoritarian regimes falling or reforming across the world. By 1993, a majority of states with populations over one million had become democracies. Levels of freedom, as measured by Freedom House, were steadily rising as well. In most years between 1991 and 2005, many more countries gained freedom than lost it.