Winning the war was easy. Winning the peace? Harder. Larry Diamond, who worked with the coalition in Baghdad last spring, explains what we have done wrong—and what we can still do right.
The Hoover Institution Archives houses the largest repository of documents pertaining to twentieth-century Poland outside of Warsaw. An overview of the collection. By Maciej Siekierski.SIDEBAR to Remembering the Warsaw Uprising.
The nation’s most serious debt problem? Not the “federal debt” but the country’s staggering future obligations to the Social Security and Medicare programs. Clark S. Judge proposes a solution.
Expanding legalized gambling in California would create a huge jackpot for the state’s coffers. Governor Schwarzenegger, call your office. By Joseph D. McNamara.
As the courts seek to learn who leaked the name of a CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak, politics is trumping the law—and national security. By Robert Zelnick.
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have been pushing to spend billions more on child care. But is more federal money the only—or best—solution? By Jeffrey M. Jones.
Thomas Sowell recently concluded a study of affirmative action programs around the world, from India and Malaysia to Nigeria and the United States. His findings? Such programs have at best a negligible impact on the groups they are intended to assist.
At an old tsarist resort almost 60 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt, argues Arnold Beichman, misread Stalin—and proved naive about communism itself.SIDEBAR: The Cold War Begins
