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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
HIGH WIRE ACT: Reforming the Electricity Industry
Building America's electricity system was one of the great achievements of the twentieth century, providing inexpensive energy to homes and businesses throughout the country. But in the twenty-first century, two crises occurred. In 2001, California experienced massive electricity shortages, leading to rolling blackouts and skyrocketing electrical bills. And in 2003, a blackout swept across eight states in the Midwest and Northeast, leaving tens of millions in the dark. Why did these problems arise now, after a century of progress? Were they the result of ill-advised attempts to deregulate the utility industry? Or is more deregulation actually the solution?
Our Brave New World
Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery...
The Golden State's Me Generation
In the midst of the Great Recession California students protest in favor of themselves. . . .
Profiles in Political Courage
Clarity of purpose is only half of a winning political strategy. The other half involves a clear understanding of the possible. By Peter Berkowitz.
Michael Moore, Closet Supply-Sider
Michael Moore is at it again, attacking capitalism and corporate America, this time with the film "Capitalism: A Love Story."...
The Mighty Dunn
Why the former footballer is hoping to run for office in California--as a Republican. . . .
Menlo Park Doesn't Need A Bailout
Allow me to introduce you to Heyward Robinson, the mayor of a small city in California...
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. . . .
California Keeps On Dreaming
Reporting on the agreement last week to close the state budget gap here in California, The New York Times adopted a tone of gloom and despair...
Mitt Romney's Big-Government Health Care Plan
Mitt Romney appears to have changed his mind once again about the statewide health care program he enacted as governor of Massachusetts...
Big Business Gives Gov. Brown a Free Pass
The news broke in early September, so technically it wasn’t an “October surprise.” Still, word that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed freshman Democratic Rep. Scott Peters instead of his Republican challenger, Carl DeMaio, in California’s 52nd Congressional District in San Diego County raised an eyebrow or two.
The High Cost Of Good Intentions Featuring John Cogan
The Need for Entitlement Reform
The Problem With California
The state of California employs some two-and-a-quarter million people, includes almost 400 state agencies, oversees 29 different legal codes, administers a tax code that runs to more than 60,000 clauses or sections and spends more than $100 billion a year...
The Budget Crisis In The Land Of Lincoln
With the end of the fiscal year deadline (June 30) looming ever closer Governor Rauner and House majority Democrats will have to come to an agreement to get the budget passed and prevent Illinois’s bond rating from being downgraded to junk, causing Illinois to lose investment-grade status.
Senator Portman On Why The New Tax Bill Helps The Middle Class
The Positive Effects of the New Tax Bill Are Already Being Seen.
The Budget Crisis in the Land of Lincoln
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With the end of the fiscal year deadline (June 30) looming ever closer Governor Rauner and House majority Democrats will have to come to an agreement to get the budget passed and prevent Illinois’s bond rating from being downgraded to junk, causing Illinois to lose investment-grade status.
Abuses and Usurpations
Ask fireman Bill Wiley whether the Clinton administration promotes volunteerism
The Man from Kinderhook
During a distinguished Army career, Chris Gibson, who spent a year as a Hoover national security fellow, displayed brains, determination, and courage. Now he’s testing his mettle in Congress.
California’s Homelessness Crisis: The Beginning Of The End, The End Of The Beginning—Or No End In Sight?
By most measures, Gavin Newsom has had a productive 2019.
California’s COVID Economic Recovery Task Force Provides Political Cover But Little Else
After seven months, California’s one-hundred-plus-member economic recovery task force has finished its recovery recommendation report. What could have been a game-changing opportunity to reduce the state’s high cost of living, increase efficiency in bureaucracies, and reform tax and regulatory policies never got off the ground.