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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...
RICH MAN, POOR MAN: Income Inequality
How much does the gap between rich and poor matter? In 1979, for every dollar the poorest fifth of the American population earned, the richest fifth earned nine. By 1997, that gap had increased to fifteen to one. Is this growing income inequality a serious problem? Is the size of the gap between rich and poor less important than the poor's absolute level of income? In other words, should we focus on reducing the income gap or on fighting poverty?
Gary Becker Interview
In today's Wall Street Journal, Hoover's Peter Robinson reports on an interview with Gary Becker. . . .
How Obama Can Win Back The Public
The President should take a page from Francois Mitterand. . . .
Should Middle-Class Americans Subsidize $100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?
Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. . . .
Triumph Of The Tea Party
Don't thank Republicans, business leaders or the media for saving the U.S. . . .
Rahe Of Sunshine
Paul Rahe, a professor at Hillsdale College, believes the country is going to hell in a hand basket. . . .
No He Hasn't
Just under six months after becoming president, and just under two months before the deadline he set for the passage of health care legislation, Barack Obama is finished...
Senator Tom Cotton, Immigration Reform, And The RAISE Act
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Reforming current legal immigration and refugee legislation.
Senator Tom Cotton, Immigration Reform, And The RAISE Act
Reforming current legal immigration and refugee legislation.
'Basically an Optimist'—Still
The Nobel economist says the health-care bill will cause serious damage, but that the American people can be trusted to vote for limited government in November. . . .