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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
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Ours to Solve - Once, and For All | Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
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Getting Global Monetary Policy On Track Advises Central Banks And Governments On How They Can Better Control Inflation
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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
The 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) report is now available, offering American policymakers a comprehensive overview of how ten frontier technologies, from artificial intelligence to robotics, are transforming the world.
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.
Getting Global Monetary Policy On Track Advises Central Banks And Governments On How They Can Better Control Inflation
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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,…
Drew Endy: Made In China 2025—Who Is Winning?
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Joseph Ledford: Advancing American Interests In The Western Hemisphere
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US Energy Security: How We Got Here And Where We Are Headed Featuring Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin examines how American energy innovation reshaped global power dynamics while revealing the uncomfortable realities of an energy transition that pits wealthy nations' climate ambitions against developing countries' urgent need for economic growth.
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Getting Global Monetary Policy on Track
Following a surge in global inflation, experts from around the world discuss and debate monetary policy and strategy, examining interest rates, labor markets, and the role of central banks.
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Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology | The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2025
Biotechnology partners with biology to create products and services, like engineering skin microbes to fight cancer or brewing medicines from yeast. This industry, already 5 percent of US GDP, is poised for significant growth. Synthetic biology, a subset of biotechnology focusing on enhancing living systems, relies on DNA sequencing and synthesis. DNA sequencers are machines that read or decode specific DNA molecules, while synthesizers write user-specifi ed sequences of DNA.
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The Interconnect: Robotics And The Quest For Smarter Machines
Hoover Institution Science Fellow and Stanford University mechanical engineering professor Allison Okamura and Kevin Weil, the Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, discuss innovations such as “soft robots,” how artificial intelligence will lead to more capable machines, and what policymakers can do to accelerate the growth of the US robotics industry.
viaThe Interconnect
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The Power Of Performance Pay
Smarter teacher retention and accelerated student achievement in Dallas.
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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 Homelessness Rises To 187,000, Perhaps Many More, Despite $37 Billion Spent
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Amy Zegart And Herb Lin: Frontier Tech And The Geopolitical Future
Hoover Institution fellows Amy Zegart and Herb Lin join the Council on Foreign Relations’ Adam Segal and Kat Duffy in a discussion about some of the most critical actors that influence the evolution of emerging technologies, the relative advantages of democracies and autocracies in developing frontier tech, and the central importance of talent and public and private investment in driving America's innovation ecosystem.
Inside China’s Business World With Patrick Jenevein
Elizabeth Economy sits down with Patrick Jenevein to discuss his experiences doing business in China.
Viewer Mail: The GoodFellows Answer Your Questions
In an episode devoted solely to viewers’ questions, Hoover senior fellows Sir Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster delve into the certain volatility (and uncertain logic) of Trump’s tariff maneuvers and more.
Türkiye: Eurasia’s Bridge Between Troubled Shores
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Bilal Bilici discuss Türkiye’s evolving role on the global stage, its central role in the volatile Black Sea and Middle East regions, and its future in NATO.
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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.
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 exhibitionsUn-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America(February 12–August 11, 2024) andHoover@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.
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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.
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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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