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A Fresh Look At The Russian Assets: A Proposal For International Resolution Of Sanctioned Accounts
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Education Futures Council Unveils Report ‘Ours To Solve - Once, And For All’ Highlighting Path To Revitalize Public Education In America
The Education Futures Council (EFC) has released its report, “Ours to Solve, Once - and For All,” to address the public education crisis in America. The report outlines a new framework for revitalizing public K–12 education across the nation.
Restoring Confidence In Congress: Will The House Come To Order?
By most metrics – a 16% job-approval rating, failing to deliver budgets much less conducting itself in a stately manner – the U.S. House of Representatives isn’t living up to the Founding Fathers’ ideals.
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2025 Hoover Programs
Applications are now open for 2025 Hoover programs. For more information, click the links below.
Commentary on the News
AI Is The 'Most Important Technological Arms Race', Says Condoleezza Rice
Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice discusses the state of AI, its implications, and whether there needs to be regulations and guard rails.
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International Study Reveals Devastating Effects Of School Closures On Student Performance
Just after President-elect Donald Trump asked Jay Bhattacharya to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), information about U.S. student performance on international tests in math and science became available. The report provides strong evidence that school closures, masking, and social distancing had a devastating impact on schoolchildren during the pandemic, just as Bhattacharya had foreseen.
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Barry Strauss: The Roman Caesars’ Guide To Ruling
Hoover Institution fellow Barry Strauss unpacks some of the Roman Empire’s most significant leaders and shares how Augustus consolidated power by initially cleaning house, and what Constantine understood about the idea that if you want things to stay the same, everything must change, and much more.
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Coercion And Countermoves: The US-China Economic Rivalry
Elizabeth Economy sits down with Melanie Hart to talk about Chinese economic coercion and US responses.
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California Adopts Permanent Water Rationing
California implemented permanent water rationing for urban water users on January 1. The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) designed the regulations, which will affect about 405 water providers serving about 95 percent of the state’s population. These providers in turn will need to determine how to meet their SWRCB quotas.
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Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden In California
Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell.
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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More Videos & Podcasts
Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America
The interview also delves into the technological and political evolution of Silicon Valley and Andreessen’s own shifting political affiliations from left to right, along with his vision for leveraging technology to drive societal progress, the role of innovation in addressing energy challenges, border security, and national defense.
Coercion And Countermoves: The US-China Economic Rivalry
Elizabeth Economy sits down with Melanie Hart to talk about Chinese economic coercion and US responses.
Churchill’s Vicar On Earth
Richard Langworth is the senior fellow at the Hillsdale Churchill Project at Hillsdale College, Michigan, and knows more about Winston Churchill than any person living (including me, annoyingly).
Lithuania: A Baltic Perspective On European Security
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Gabrielius Landsbergis discuss the Baltic nation of Lithuania.
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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