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Choosing military men for top cabinet spots is not unprecedented, nor is it foolish given how Washington insiders have performed.
December 14, 2016 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
Donald Trump's nomination of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be the nation's next secretary of state — after a protracted consideration of candidates — suggests the president-elect understands the position must be filled by a person of character, depth and vision.
December 14, 2016 via Baltimore Sun via Hoover Daily Report
Every once in a while, American K–12 education is overwhelmed by the conviction that its basic design is obsolete and that it needs somehow to reinvent schooling. One hears statements such as “If Rip Van Winkle were to awaken today from a century-long slumber, the only institutions he’d recognize would be schools and cemeteries.”
December 14, 2016 via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog) via Hoover Daily Report
Could the European Union fall apart? Would that end NATO, too? Or will the EU’s troubles lead to a more robust defense? “No” to all of the above. To begin, Brexit will not unleash mass defection because a) the 27 remaining nations are far more deeply integrated, and b) they regard the benefit-cost ratio far more favorably than does Britain. At heart an American alliance, NATO will endure, as it has for 70 years, as long as the U.S. guarantee holds. Precisely for that reason, the Europeans will not move toward an autonomous defense. Yet if the U.S. withdraws its umbrella, it is just as likely that Europe would seek safety in accommodating Russia.
October 31, 2016 via undefined via Hoover Institution Press
Will Moscow be more or less dangerous during a Trump Administration.
December 14, 2016 via The Classicist via The Classicist
The depressingly inaccurate standard story of trade these days is that we got cheap toys and gadgets from China and in return, we destroyed millions of American jobs, particularly in manufacturing. If this increasingly common view of trade were the whole story, I too, would start to question the virtues of free trade.
December 14, 2016 via Cafe Hayek via Hoover Daily Report
Putin is now -- suddenly -- everywhere.
December 15, 2016 via Front Page Magazine Online via Hoover Daily Report
With apologies to Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam. Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon CEO whom Donald Trump has picked for Secretary of State, has made a lot of comments and taken a lot of positions in favor of free trade. That's not unusual for a Secretary of State.
December 14, 2016 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
Republicans in Washington are committed to repealing Obamacare right away. What they’ve been less enthusiastic about is putting the same timetable on passing policies that would replace Obamacare with market-oriented reforms.
December 15, 2016 via Townhall via Hoover Daily Report
The CIA concludes that Russian hackers tried to help Donald Trump get elected. Trump will nominate Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state. And the Obama administration is confident that journalist Austin Tice, held hostage in Syria, is alive.
December 14, 2016 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discusses whether Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the hacking of the US election.
December 14, 2016 via MSNBC via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Paul Gregory discusses his Forbes article "The Battle Over Russian Hacking Is Over The Legitimacy Of The Trump Presidency."
December 13, 2016 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Why the fuss now? Who else has been hacked? Could the CIA be wrong?
December 14, 2016 via The Atlantic via Hoover Daily Report
A Syrian activist described a “genocide” unfolding in the streets of Aleppo Monday, hours before reports surfaced that pro-government forces had executed civilians on the besieged city’s streets, including women and children.
December 14, 2016 via USA Today via Hoover Daily Report
Few of the many unexpected intellectual twists and turns of the early post-9/11 years of the Bush administration were quite so unexpected—or quite so twisty and turny—as the sudden return to prominence of the pre-war German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt. Schmitt was, to put it mildly, not a reputable figure.
December 14, 2016 via Lawfare via Hoover Daily Report
Rewind to August 2015: Then-candidate Donald Trump is on stage in Cleveland at the first Republican presidential debate. "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct," Trump tells the moderator, Fox News' Megyn Kelly. "I've been challenged by so many people and I don't, frankly, have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time, either."
December 14, 2016 via NPR via Hoover Daily Report
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
December 15, 2016 via NBC News via Hoover Daily Report
Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the critically important relationship between the White House and the U.S. intelligence community is unnerving officials and national security scholars.
December 14, 2016 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
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