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Policy Implications Of DeepSeek AI’s Talent Base
Chinese startup DeepSeek AI upended the conventional wisdom about AI innovation.
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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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,…
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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
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Understanding Gun Violence In America
Traditional narratives about gun violence in America are mostly wrong. So argues Jens Ludwig, who joins Steve Davis to explain why and offer a better explanation.
California Update: The World’s 4th-Largest Economy – And The Home Of “Shaq State”?
California’s new global standing, the impact of looming Trump tariffs, the reemergence of former vice president Kamala Harris as she ponders whether to run for governor in 2026, and basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal becoming the general manager of Sacramento State’s men’s basketball team.
Electric Empire: China’s EV Takeover With Michael Dunne
Elizabeth Economy talks with Michael Dunne about the Chinese and global automotive industry.
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.
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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