Among advanced degrees in engineering awarded at U.S. universities during the 2007-08 academic year, 28 percent went to whites; 2 percent went to blacks; 2 percent went to Hispanics; and 61 percent went to foreigners. Of the advanced degrees in mathemati

UNACCEPTABLE February 16, 2012 he Obama administration has offered what it has styled as an "accommodation" for religious institutions in the dispute over the HHS mandate for coverage (without cost sharing) of abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and

Thomas Henriksen is a senior fellow at both Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the U.S. Joint Special Operations University, whose book, America and the Rogue States, Palgrave Macmillan will publish this summer. Americans may be worrying about

Several recent polls have shown Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum surging in popularity among voters nationwide, and running even with Mitt Romney in Michigan, where voters go to the polls later this month. Santorum casts himself as the "tr

For more than a decade the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their vi

“Protest that endures, I think,” the American writer Wendell Berry once wrote, “is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence

A counterfeit version of Avastin, a widely used and expensive intravenous cancer drug. has according to the FDA been found in the U.S. It is unclear whether any of the bogus drug, which lacks any of the active ingredient, has been administered to patient

Tod Lindberg is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and editor of Policy Review. The United States and Iran have been on a collision course since the Iranian revolution in 1979, when elements of the newly proclaimed Islamic Republic took U.S. dip

Iranian soldiers take part in celebrations marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution at Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) on Feb. 11, 2012. A defiant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed to inaugurate "important nuclear projects"

Newt Gingrich feeds a panda Tuesday at the San Diego Zoo. The GOP presidential candidate focused on fundraising in the state. PALO ALTO Hopscotching throughout the state this week, Newt Gingrich insisted first that he is staying in the Republican presid

Facing regulatory uncertainty or obstructionism, companies are simply abandoning projects that in a more positive regulatory environment might have yielded medically useful, profitable products. The Small Business Administration estimated the cost of com

The writer is a professor at Harvard Law School and a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. His new book, “ Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11 ,” will be published next month. A Washington Post

Newt Gingrich is meeting with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice today at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution as he continues on the third day of his California swing. The huddle is a luncheon meeting between Gingrich and a group of professo

Via POLITICO's Ginger Gibson: Newt Gingrich is lunching with Condoleezza Rice and a group of professors today at Stanford University. The luncheon at the Hoover Institution was closed to the press. A university spokeswoman explained that the school's pol

"We would love to have their business continue in Palo Alto, but their business meets the definition of massage and should be regulated as such." Customers walk into the Happy Feet Foot Spa in Palo Alto on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Spa owners Ping and

Richard Epstein at the Hoover Institution looks at whether government can require companies or the States to give things away for free. The idea is nothing as crazy as one might think. There’s an argument that it can already mandate behavior as a conditi

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and current Republican presidential primary candidate, visited the Hoover Institution on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, for a series of meetings with Hoover fellows to discuss a broad range of issues, from health

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Barack Obama is the first black president of the United States, but his doctrine is by no means unique. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the h

Thomas Sowell is a columnist and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Reach him at sowellstanford.edu. A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the “inevitable” Republican candidate for president o