2024 ANNUAL REPORT: Ideas Advancing Freedom (Hoover Institution)

This past year saw a host of global challenges converging across societies and governments, with each navigating an environment of profound technological change. In the geopolitical domain, we continued to witness a return to great-power competition; to confront it requires knowledge of how we got here as well as a deep understanding of the technological …

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Israel on the Legal Battlefield: Why an International Court’s “War Crimes” Charge is Misguided.

Lawfare—using litigation to upend political leaders and causes—is suddenly prominent in both the United States and Israel. Indeed, the current corruption trial in Tel Aviv involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cut from the same cloth as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s bid to upend Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations. Both men face charges for events that …

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An Evenhanded Analysis of Trump’s Economic Policies (Mickey D. Levy)

Expect offsetting impacts of deregulation, lower tax rates, and tariffs—but also great uncertainty. Assessments of the impacts of President-elect Trump’s economic policies are just as polarized as the political arguments of the recent campaign. Trump’s detractors provide deeply negative economic estimates of his policy statements on tariffs and immigration. The Trump camp sees only clear …

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