The events of one of the most tumultuous years in U.S. history have pushed our representative government to the breaking point.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses, with Karen Hawley Miles and David Griffith, Karen's chapter in Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck and how school districts can cope with budgetary consequences of declining enrollments—a growing problem because of Covid-19. 

The Chinese Communist Party wages a series of foreign interference and coercion campaigns and this section provides articles and reports explaining those actions, as well as the damage they do abroad.

The Hatch Center-the policy arm of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation has released Commonsense Solutions to Our Civics Crisis, a nonpartisan report that establishes strong links between poor civic education and a number of ills plaguing our democracy, including depressed voter turnout, low trust in institutions, and decreasing faith in the free market. To reverse these trends, the report calls on policymakers across all levels of government to devote increased state and federal resources to address the civics crisis. In doing so, it outlines a policy blueprint to recenter civics at the heart of America’s public-school system.