California’s Republican Party has drifted off the centrist track. But its voters haven’t. By Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams.

Beware a fetish for 'data' and faux statistical exactitude.

Two of Silicon Valley's most famous power women, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, made their debuts on the national political stage at the Republican National Convention last week but wound up being overshadowed by the selection of John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin...

America is not the fatally polarized nation we often imagine it to be. On most issues, the majority of red-staters and blue-staters are on the same side. By Morris P. Fiorina.

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, offers insights into the Immigration bill before Congress, notes that it is a step in the right direction but needs strengthening in the area of the merit-based immigration.

It's clear that voters supported the Republican despite, not because of, his incendiary positions. 

Republicans are becoming the party of disruptors. The Freedom Caucus in the House was successful at wearing out Speaker John Boehner and running off his likely successor Kevin McCarthy.  Meanwhile, in the presidential campaign, Republican disruptors are winning. The three outsiders—Trump, Carson and Fiorina—have a collective 54 percent in support, with all the rest who have been officeholders at 39 percent.

Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, in discussing the immigration legislation being considered by the US Senate, recommends supporting a liberal immigration policy. Lazear also weighs in on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.

Peter Berkowitz on American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, with the assistance of Shaylyn Romney Garrett.