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Policy Implications Of DeepSeek AI’s Talent Base
Chinese startup DeepSeek AI upended the conventional wisdom about AI innovation.
Condoleezza Rice Outlines Why The US ‘Has To Win’ AI Race Against China
Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice analyzes student visas, the artificial intelligence arms race and more.
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Commentary on the News
Public Not Yet Taking China Cyber Threat Seriously, McMaster Tells Congressional Field Hearing
The federal government must warn the American public about the cyber threat posed by China, and the assembled experts of the Hoover Institution can help share the message, Senior Fellow
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Featured Fellows
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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Can AI Companies Be Sued For What AI Says?
Jane and Eugene analyze lawsuits against AI companies and possible First Amendment defenses to those lawsuits.
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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
Read MoreOn The Verge Of Losing $4 Billion In Federal Funds, High Speed Rail Should Have Been Stopped Long Ago
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“That’s Not Gonna Happen”: Israel Aims to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program
Israel launches air attacks intended to destroy Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, Iran retaliates with missile strikes on Israeli cities, and the world waits to see what comes next – a return to the status quo, neighboring countries drawn into the conflict, or an end to the Iranian theocracy?
Justice Alito: Dobbs, A Color Blind Constitution, And The Balancing Of Power
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito discusses the principles that guide his judicial philosophy.
Axis, Rivalry, Or Chaos? The US-China-Russia Equation With Michael McFaul
Elizabeth Economy talks with Michael McFaul to discuss the US-Russia-China relationship and his experiences as the former US ambassador to Russia.
Trump Tariff Outcomes: Is The “Less-Worse” Case A Best-Case Scenario?
What’s the most likely outcome for President Trump’s tariff strategy – trading partners capitulating, America’s economy and exceptionalism crumbling, or something in the middle?
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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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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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