Politics

Michael Hartney, the Bruni Family Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an associate professor of political science at Boston College, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how the Democratic Party has embraced teachers unions, and how that could impact education reform moving forward.

How did Britain’s diplomats help win World War II—and shape the world that followed?

The lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections has seen a number of further left candidates win primary elections over moderates. But how might those who make campaign contributions react to these more ideologically extreme candidates? In new research which examines campaign contributions and politicians’ voting records Andrew Myers finds that when voters narrowly nominate a more-extreme candidate, their party suffers financially in the general election, with much of the reduction in campaign contributions coming from corporations. This moderation filter is waning, however, with the overall financial penalty being about half as large as it was 20 years ago.

The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command, signifies no material change in force posture or organizational responsibilities, but it unavoidably signals less focus on the Indian Ocean, presumably in favor of its consistent top priority in the western Pacific, although it’s not clear anyone really knows.

Traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare faces growing fiscal pressure and persistent operational inefficiencies, yet policy efforts have largely focused on benefit design rather than administrative reform. This paper argues that a major opportunity to improve Medicare lies in modernizing its administrative infrastructure, specifically the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) system.

Veterans and voters have punished past administrations for costly wars, but these days many Americans don’t seem to care.

Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer break down the groundbreaking Robby Starbuck v. Google case and what it could mean for AI, defamation law, and the future of free speech.

Justice Clarence Thomas reflects on the ideas, friendship, and intellectual courage of Thomas Sowell—and the enduring importance of thinking for oneself.

Faced with stalemated trench warfare in France in late 1914, British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill devised a plan to strategically envelop the Western Front. The Royal Navy and the French Navy would penetrate the Dardanelles Strait to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war, open a sea route to send arms to beleaguered ally, Russia, and establish a new front in the Balkans to pressure Germany’s ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

“Success will depend less on a handful of exquisite platforms,” wrote Hoover Institution fellow Miles Maochun Yu, about the lessons from Ukraine, “than on resilient networks, distributed forces, sustained production and the ability to attack not only enemy forces in the field but also the industrial foundations that keep those forces alive.”

Hoover Institution fellow Amy Zegart saidresearchers will design AI agents that could work like digital detectives, following specific steps to comb through documents in multiple languages, still images or videos, and satellite photos to see changes that indicate potential nuclear development in violation of international law.

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson details the backstory behind Reagan's famous "Tear Down This Wall" speech—which the president delivered in front of the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987.

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Blair Henry is appointed as chair of the Jamaica Reconstruction and Resilience Oversight Committee (JAMRROC). The decision is not simply the selection of an internationally respected economist. It is an affirmation of an important truth about modern nationhood.