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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.
Hoover Institution Launches Fiscal Policy Initiative, Highlighting Urgent Need For Sustainable Fiscal Policy
Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
An Interview With Barry Strauss, Esteemed Classicist, Military And Naval Historian, And Best-Selling Author
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2025 Hoover Programs
Hoover hosts annual programs for students and international foreign and defense policy professionals. For more information, click the links below.
Commentary on the News
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,…
Core Institutional Priorities
Featured Fellows
Michael J. Boskin
Senior Fellow
Drew Endy
Science Fellow/Senior Fellow (courtesy)
Allison Okamura
Senior Fellow (courtesy) / Science Fellow
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US Energy Security: How We Got Here And Where We Are Headed Featuring Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin examines how American energy innovation reshaped global power dynamics while revealing the uncomfortable realities of an energy transition that pits wealthy nations' climate ambitions against developing countries' urgent need for economic growth.
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Getting Global Monetary Policy on Track
Following a surge in global inflation, experts from around the world discuss and debate monetary policy and strategy, examining interest rates, labor markets, and the role of central banks.
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Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology | The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2025
Biotechnology partners with biology to create products and services, like engineering skin microbes to fight cancer or brewing medicines from yeast. This industry, already 5 percent of US GDP, is poised for significant growth. Synthetic biology, a subset of biotechnology focusing on enhancing living systems, relies on DNA sequencing and synthesis. DNA sequencers are machines that read or decode specific DNA molecules, while synthesizers write user-specifi ed sequences of DNA.
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The Interconnect: Robotics And The Quest For Smarter Machines
Hoover Institution Science Fellow and Stanford University mechanical engineering professor Allison Okamura and Kevin Weil, the Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, discuss innovations such as “soft robots,” how artificial intelligence will lead to more capable machines, and what policymakers can do to accelerate the growth of the US robotics industry.
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The Power Of Performance Pay
Smarter teacher retention and accelerated student achievement in Dallas.
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
Read MoreCalifornia Homelessness Rises To 187,000, Perhaps Many More, Despite $37 Billion Spent
More Videos & Podcasts
Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—And, Yes, The Tariffs
Tune in to this rare appearance by one of America’s most influential thinkers.
Empirical Macroeconomics With Robert Barro (Harvard Economics Professor)
Harvard Economics Professor Robert Barro joins Jon Hartley on Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century to discuss his career in economics, the fiscal theory of the price level, the interplay between religion and economics, his research on Ricardian equivalence, and much more.
Viewer Mail: The GoodFellows Answer Your Questions
In an episode devoted solely to viewers’ questions, Hoover senior fellows Sir Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster delve into the certain volatility (and uncertain logic) of Trump’s tariff maneuvers and more.
The Hardest Fight: Veteran Mental Health, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, And Building Chimney Trail
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mental fitness, and real conversations are helping veterans fight the war within.
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.
Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.
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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