“Nearly everything you read about [political] polarization . . . is wrong, or at least incomplete or misinterpreted,” remarked Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina. Fiorina, along with David Brady, deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Tammy Frisby, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, sat down the day after the Florida primary to talk about American politics and the 2012 election. Stepping back from the blow-by-blow coverage of the presidential campaigns, Brady, Fiorina, and Frisby discuss how underlying conditions and both continuity and change in American politics are shaping the Republican primary, the prospects for the November 2012 general election, and races for seats in the 113th Congress.

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 his recent book First Principles, in which he lists five key principles for restoring the economy. Taylor addresses the US federal budget deficit, fiscal policy, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, and Greece's debt crisis. (7:09)

On Wednesday, February 1, Hoover research fellow David Henderson hosted a forum with Stanford students to discuss the economy and “Five Myths about Free Markets.” Click here to watch the video. (49:31)

Peter Robinson, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan, discusses how to write a great State of the Union address.