HOOVER INSTITUTION

What matters most to independent voters, the odds of one or both chambers of Congress flipping, plus whether Pennsylvania is the “new Florida” as ground zero for deciding presidential outcomes.

By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.

An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.

With its number of homeless people nearly doubling over the last year, the city of Norwalk, California, enacted a forty-five-day moratorium on the construction of homeless shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. When this forty-five-day moratorium expired last week, the city extended it by ten months despite legal threats from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta.

We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.

America’s current policy goal with the Russian war on Ukraine might be articulated as helping to achieve the best possible position for Ukraine to end the fighting through a settlement. This essay considers the difficult and complicated issues that would be involved in such negotiations. Importantly, to be successful, diplomacy would have to achieve both an end to the war and the creation of a stable peace.