Month: January 2025

Afer more than a decade o meetings, studies, and recommendations on the potential orrevitalizing the US nuclear power enterprise, today’s message rom the nuclear community isclear: unexpected new energy demands, and the unconventional business models that comewith them, offer the best prospect in decades or delivering on new nuclear’s promise. Ithese new opportunities are cultivated, …

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As geopolitical tensions, technological changes, and a resurgent protectionism transform global trade, developing countries are finding it harder to replicate the export-driven growth miracles of the past. Fostering sustainable development in this new environment will require pragmatic, forward-looking solutions. Read More

Monopoly is a powerful thing, particularly where economic ideas are concerned. If economists are to solve the problems that people care about, they must stop treating production as an afterthought and accept – as all other natural and social sciences have – that theories of equilibrium are a comforting nineteenth-century relic. AUSTIN – In a remarkable catalogue …

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From threats to pursue his “enemies” to an apparent commitment to cementing plutocracy in America, Donald Trump’s second term will again test the resilience of the US constitutional order. And this time, he has not only full control of Congress, but also a Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing his immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts …

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“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, …

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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) crisis stems from a series of post-colonial battles from power, which began after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Decades of conflict have been fuelled by ethnic tensions, political rivalries, corruption and fighting for control of valuable natural resources.  DRC’s current conflict has been ongoing since the …

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Hoover fellow Chester Finn describes new efforts to produce educated citizens. Chris Herhalt: Reading the latest work by Hoover researcher Jed Ngalande into states’ requirements for civics education, I was struck by the different requirements across the country. I know education is said to be thirteen thousand fiefdoms, but could we benefit from some sort of standardization …

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Sizing up and getting ready for the profound—and still unknown—ways our adversaries might use artificial intelligence. Jonathan Movroydis: Defense against the AI Dark Arts: Threat Assessment and Coalition Defense is a report that springs from a new initiative, the Hoover Workshops on Urgent Security Choices. The workshops engage veteran crisis managers and strategic thinkers to offer deep, practical analysis. Professor …

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The scene for one of the worst-ever civil wars in African history, the Democratic Republic of Congo has moved from the national conflict of the late 1990s to a series of smaller, localized conflicts focused in specific regions and centered on land, resources, and power. On a continent that has the most displaced people in the world, …

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