Politics

The 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) report is now available, offering American policymakers a comprehensive overview of how ten frontier technologies, from artificial intelligence to robotics, are transforming the world. Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) — The 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) report is now available, offering American policymakers a comprehensive overview …

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Since Plato’s Republic 2,300 years ago, philosophers have understood the process by which demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule. The process is straightforward, and we have now just watched it play out. NEW YORK – Like others, since late Tuesday night, my phone has …

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Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris climate agreement, rescinded emissions-reduction targets, and ended climate-related initiatives. But a range of potential initiatives that are consistent with the Trump administration’s priorities could still slow climate change. NEW YORK – There is no denying the reality of global …

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History and social science research show that voters take their cues from elites. When politicians who are seen as mainstream treat an extremist far-right party as normal, public opinion will tend to follow; and once such normalization has happened, as in Europe today, it is virtually impossible to undo. FRANKFURT – With only a few …

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The well-known images of East Germans eagerly pouring into West Berlin onthe night of November 9, 1989, have become symbols of the beginning of theend of the Cold War and, more specifically, evidence of the failure ofCommunist rule in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany)and its socialist economic system. Yet that historic moment …

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Since 1949, following the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Europe’s political leadership, with striking exceptions, have assumed that the American commitment to its defence was unequivocal. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle, the French president, did not wholly share this view and even withdrew French military personnel from its integrated military command in 1966. …

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Trump’s demand for tariffs threatens a decades-long trend favoring economic freedom. When I was a full-time economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, I always taught my master’s students about comparative advantage. I showed them that if two people were on a desert island and discovered each other, they could each have more by specializing …

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Senior Fellow Paola Sapienza is co-director of the J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration. Here she discusses research into the economic benefits of immigration, how migration fosters prosperity, and what is lost in the current immigration debate in the United States.  Chris Herhalt: It’s no accident that the J-P Conte Immigration Initiative has been placed under the new Hoover Prosperity Program. What …

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