The year 2015 brought global attention to the richness of the holdings at Hoover. The books and documents at Hoover Library & Archives served as the foundations for blockbuster films, renowned scholarship, well-attended exhibitions, and dramatic findings related to current events.

The Federal Reserve is the single most important economic policy institution in the United States. Its recent unprecedented actions and interventions have raised serious concerns in many quarters about inflation, as well as the independence and effectiveness of the Fed.

Trump and Sanders claim that the will of the people is at risk of being thwarted, but sometimes that’s as it should be.          

The tenth edition of the Decision 2020 Report highlights Hoover fellows’ thoughts and analyses on the constitutional roles of the federal government and state governments in dealing with national crises and in major policy discussions about health care, education, immigration, and environmental protection. It also explores the effectiveness of state government in policy innovation and implementation.

Amidst the flap between the CIA and the SSCI last week, you may have missed the news about the back-and-forth between NSA and the FISA court over whether the agency may, must, or mustn't retain telephony metadata past the five year deadline for its destruc

STANFORD—“We have to rethink the nuclear principles on which we’ve been operating,” said Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, who spoke at a dinner on Thursday, November 11, in connection with a Hoover conference on nuclear nonproliferation titled “Deterrence: Its Past and Future.”

The Director of the National Security Agency said he expects a major cyberattack against the U.S. in the next decade. “It’s only a matter of the ‘when,’ not the ‘if,’” Admiral Michael Rogers said, “that we are going to see something dramatic.”

In the twentieth edition of the Decision 2020 Report, Hoover fellows assess the economic, national security, and geopolitical implications of innovations in artificial intelligence (AI).

Multiple trends point toward an unlikely peaceful reunification of Taiwan with mainland China, raising the prospects of a war over the island nation, experts argued in a seminar copresented by Hoover’s project on China’s Global Sharp Power, project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region, and National Security Task Force.