Global View Columnist Bret Stephens and Editorial Board Member Mary Kissel talk about the mullah and the pope, the slow death of borderless Europe and Robert Conquest in memoriam.
In 2008, the Commission on Growth and Development, which I had the privilege of chairing, produced a report updating our knowledge about sustainable growth patterns. Then, as now, one thing is clear: the policies that underpin multi-decade periods of high growth, structural transformation, rising employment and incomes, and dramatic reductions in poverty are mutually reinforcing.
In politically driven moods, the ancient Romans often wiped from history all mention of a prior hero or celebrity. They called such erasures damnatio memoriae.
There is a saying that as a politician you don't want to be too far in front of, nor too far behind public opinion. While public opinion can be destiny for many political debates and decisions, there are times, however, when politicians need to drive public opinion to achieve efficient and effective policy outcomes. In California, transportation infrastructure funding is one of those areas.
Under the newly enacted Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now face the challenge of creating school accountability systems that can vastly improve upon the model required by No Child Left Behind. To help spur creative thinking about how they might do so, and also to inform the Department of Education as it develops its ESSA regulations, the Fordham Institute is hosting an ESSA Accountability Design Competition.
As my Fordham colleague David Griffith wrote late last year in a post accompanying the release of The Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice), resistance to the spread of parental choice in education is futile. The genie is out of the bottle, and there’s no going back.
interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli explains the schisms in the school choice movement, defends career and technical education programs, and discusses Eva Moskowitz’s big speech on school discipline.
featuring John B. Taylorvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization (FORM) Act, passed by the House of Representatives last November, requires the Federal Reserve to adopt a quantitative strategy for monetary policy.
New research by an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution shows that globalization and industrial investment are increasing prosperity worldwide and lessening the economic gap between rich and poor countries.
Asked about Russia’s Syrian intervention, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acerbically turned on President Vladimir Putin, whom he and others seem to regard as Geopolitical Russia incarnate.
New research from Columbia Business School shows that despite the Federal Reserve's success at reducing liquidity risks, many banks resisted joining from its beginning.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meetings were held in Davos-Klosters Switzerland over 20-23 January 2016. The WEF is best known for its Annual Meeting in Davos where its mission is cited as “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.
It takes a moment to get your bearings at anti-asylum demonstrations in Germany these days. It still seems strange to see neo-Nazis and Pegida protesters waving French flags. The other day I got caught up in one of their barricades outside the central railway station in Cologne.
