David Davenport, counselor to the director and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, notes that today’s federal courts are full of cases in which state and federal powers are squaring off. Cases in California and Massachusetts ask whether state or federal branches should define marriage. The immigration battle in Arizona is primarily a question of federal versus state power; the constitutional battle over health care asks whether the federal government has the power to regulate it…

Charles Hill, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, and a diplomat in residence and lecturer in international studies at Yale University, discusses, with NPR producer Brent Baughman, why leaders no longer turn to classic literature for wisdom and guidance.

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, discusses what we need to do to get the economy back on track with Tom Keene on Bloomberg News.

Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn discuss the number of states likely to win Race to the Top grants and whether politics will come into play.