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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need

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Revitalizing the House: Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process

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American Federalism Today

American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance  by Michael J. Boskin (ed.)

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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis

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A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis

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A Nation At Risk +40

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How Election Rules Affect Who Wins

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The Political Economy Of American Indian Policy: Introduction To A Special Issue

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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.

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The Perils Of Isolationism

In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in processing the intelligence failure that led to the attack. Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to Imperial Japan’s attack in making the case that Washington should deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban, saying, “Decent countries don’t launch surprise attacks.”

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Hoover Institution Launches Program On The US, China, And The World

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Victor Davis Hanson's Post-Election Analysis: The Rewards Of Authenticity And Hard Work

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The Problem Of Good Conduct Among Financial Advisers

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Hoover Acquires The Records Of The Conflict Records Research Center

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What is MyHoover?

MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests.

Watch this video for an overview of MyHoover.

2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs

Applications are now open for the 2025 Hoover Fellowship Programs with opportunities for early-career scholars. For more information on the Hoover Fellows program and National Fellows program, click the links below.

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Issues Affecting American Democracy | Elections 2024

To help inform citizens as they gear up for the 2024 elections, the Hoover Institution is offering "Issues Affecting American Democracy," a non-partisan compendium of fellows' insights into key policy issues. A few recent highlights are featured below. Click the button below to explore more content.

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Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges

Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.

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Good Teachers Hold The Key To Learning Loss Recovery

By identifying, enabling, and incentivizing our best classroom teachers, we can revive flatlining student achievement.

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Axis Of Aggressors: H.R. McMaster On Defending America’s Interests

An increasingly formidable emerging axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are united in their determination to undermine the United States and counter its core interests.

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The Status Of Possible Legislative Changes To Direct Primary Care (DPC) Arrangements

DPCs are the rare bipartisan health care reform that everyone loves, once they hear about them.

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The State of American Citizenship 2023

We are troubled but unsurprised by fresh evidence of American civic decline, evidence that comes from an August 2023 survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Working Group on Good American Citizenship (GoodAmCiv), based at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. At the same time, we’re heartened by several rays of hope that penetrate the gloom.

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Benjamin Ginsberg On 60 Minutes

Hoover Institution fellow Ben Ginsberg discusses the integrity of the elections.

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GoodFellows | Bret Stephens

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Uncommon Knowledge | Condoleezza Rice

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Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice On America’s Foreign Policy Challenges

Condoleezza Rice joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at a perilous moment for the United States and the world at large, even more dangerous than the Cold War, Rice argues.

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Core Institutional Priorities

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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives

The United States faces no shortage of challenges from political polarization, institutional distrust, to economic uncertainty. But through devoted efforts towards civic engagement, civic education, and civic bargaining, American citizens can ensure American democracy survives and thrives.

July 2, 2024

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The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Josiah Ober

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The Political Economy of the Middle Income Trap

Governments in many middle income countries promote the interests of a small set of firms while erecting barriers to entry and threatening the property rights of other economic actors. We show how such economic favoritism yields second-best outcomes that are nevertheless welfare-superior to scenarios with no property rights, but fall short of the first-best outcome of free entry and open competition. We develop a model to explain how such policies are politically feasible and can be optimal from the perspective of rulers when first-best policies are not.

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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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Is Permanent Peace For Israel Even Possible?

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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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Islamism And Immigration In Germany And The European Context

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Western Democracies Face Not Only Hamas The Physical Organization But Also Hamas The Idea, Part Of A Broader Islamist Infrastructure

25th Anniversary of Hamas in Gaza

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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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California’s Pendulum Inches Toward The Center, Though Not Its Political Leaders

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The “Enough Is Enough” Election(s) In California?

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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.

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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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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.

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The 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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