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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need

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Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process
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American Federalism Today
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
By David Davenport, Jeffrey Sikkenga

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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis
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A Nation At Risk +40

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How Election Rules Affect Who Wins
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By Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Chicheng Ma, Yuchen Xu

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2025 Hoover Programs

Applications are now open for 2025 Hoover programs. For more information, click the links below.

Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024

To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.

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Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges

Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.

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Good Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery

By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.

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Axis Of Aggressors: H.R. McMaster On Defending America’s Interests

An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.

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The Status Of Possible Legislative Changes To Direct Primary Care (DPC) Arrangements

DPCs are the rare bipartisan health care reform that everyone loves, once they hear about them.

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The State of American Citizenship 2023

We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.

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Benjamin Ginsberg On 60 Minutes

Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg discusses the integrity of the elections.

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Core Institutional Priorities
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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What Happened To Declarations Of War And Treaties Of Peace?
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Presidential Power In War And Peace
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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Islamism And Immigration In Germany And The European Context
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Western Democracies Face Not Only Hamas The Physical Organization But Also Hamas The Idea, Part Of A Broader Islamist Infrastructure
25th Anniversary of Hamas in Gaza
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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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California’s Pendulum Inches Toward The Center, Though Not Its Political Leaders
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A Dose Of Sunshine For California Ballot Initiatives?
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Free Speech Unmuted

Free Speech In European (And Other) Democracies, With Prof. Jacob Mchangama

How does European free speech law differ from American free speech law, when it comes to “hate speech,” blasphemy, and misinformation?

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Economic Growth, De-Population, And Macroeconomics With UPenn Econ Professor Jesus Fernández-Villaverde

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde joins Jon Hartley to discuss the economic history and the future of economic growth, business cycles, drivers of the early 2020s inflation, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium and vector autoregressive models.

Trump Staff Selection

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: Trump’s Cabinet And Staffing Selections

President-elect Trump is filling out his cabinet and key staff positions. Which ones are strong and which ones are not?

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US-China Policy In Trump 2.0

Elizabeth Economy sits down with former Trump and Obama officials, Matt Pottinger and Evan Medeiros.

Library & Archives
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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. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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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.

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The 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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Why do nations rarely declare war or surrender?

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