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A Deep Peek Into DeepSeek AI’s Talent And Implications For US Innovation
DeepSeek AI’s rapid ascent signals more than a breakthrough in large language model performance—it is a wake-up call for US innovation strategy. This Chinese startup was propelled by a deeply rooted and increasingly self-sufficient domestic talent pipeline.
Civic Learning Week National Forum: Celebrating Many Voices, One Nation
Civics educators, community leaders, and scholars gathered at the Hoover Institution on Thursday, March 13, for the iCivics Civic Learning Week National Forum to share stories, ideas, and insights on strengthening civic learning in an era of increasing political polarization.
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Hoover hosts annual programs for students and international foreign and defense policy professionals. For more information, click the links below.
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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Highlights Promise And Risk Of Frontier Tech To Washington, DC Policymakers
Contributors to the 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review brought its findings to America’s capital on February 25,…
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Brandice Canes-Wrone
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow | Director of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions
Eugene Volokh
Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow
Dominic Parker
Ilene and Morton Harris Senior Fellow (adjunct)
Peter Blair Henry
Class of 1984 Senior Fellow
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Policy Challenges to US Economic Prosperity | Challenges Facing the US Economy
This panel conversation, chaired by Hoover Senior Fellow Stephen Haber, explores key policy challenges facing the US economy, focusing on immigration, innovation, regional economic inequality, and trust in government institutions.
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Harvard V. Trump: Free Speech And Government Grants
Jane and Eugene discuss the Administration’s freezing of grants to Harvard, and Harvard’s lawsuit challenging the freeze.
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Sir Niall Ferguson Decodes Trump, China, And The New World Order
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses the evolving relationship between the US and China, Trump's foreign policy doctrine, and what the new global economic and security order might look like.
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Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict In The Congo
The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.”
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Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt
The nation's debt is in the news - headlines shout about borrowing, bonds and yields. Dharshini David speaks to debt managers, traders and watchers to explore how we should think about the UK's debt - its history, how it works, who owns it, and how worried we should be about it.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan
The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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California on Your Mind
Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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Fiscal Scoring With Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel
Jon Hartley and Phillip Swagel discuss Phill’s career as an academic economist, his time in economic policy, why the CBO is important in the budget policy process, current law versus current policy baselines, dynamic scoring versus static scoring, the accuracy of CBO scores, CBO modeling, as well as CBO model transparency.
Tariff-ic Or Tariff-ied? What Polling Says About Trump 2.0
What do the polls indicate about President Trump’s first 100 days in office?
Tangled Up In Blue With Rep. Ro Khanna: Tariffs, Trump, And Progressive Capitalism
Rejected by voters last November, the Democratic Party is perhaps afforded new life given President Trump’s decline in popularity and economic uncertainty ahead. What is the party’s message?
Boris Johnson: The Future Of Transatlantic Security
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Boris Johnson discuss the war in Ukraine, British and European politics, and the future of the transatlantic relationship.
Library & Archives
A World-Class Library & Archives
Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Exhibitions | Now On View
The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.
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Research Services
Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.
Learn MoreThe Collections
Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.
Digital First Initiative
Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.
Engagement & Outreach
Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.
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