NEW Today's Battlegrounds: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and H.R. McMaster discuss the future of US-Iraq relations as PM Ali al-Zaidi's new government seeks to strengthen sovereignty, fight corruption, improve security, and diversify the economy.

Iraq: Reform And The Fight For Sovereignty

H.R. McMaster and Haider al-Abadi discuss the future of US–Iraq relations as the new Prime Minister al-Zaidi and his government endeavor to strengthen Iraqi sovereignty, fight corruption, improve secu...

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The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act is presented as a one-time 5% levy to fund healthcare for low-income Californians. Hoover's Joshua Rauh explains how the proposal would amend the state constitution, allowing future wealth taxes—and not just on billionaires.

Did Titus give the order to spare the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, or did he order its destruction? The ancient sources disagree, but the passage where Tacitus weighed in is missing. Hoover Senior Fellow Barry Strauss explains more on @epichistory.bsky.social

Lost Books and the Ancient Mysteries They Would Solve

Start your ancient coin collection at https://kinzercoins.com and use code EPICHISTORY for 10% off at checkout! ------------------------------------- Most of what we know about the ancient world survives by accident. So many of the great historical tex...

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John Dickinson, aka the ‘Penman of the Revolution,’ helped establish the argument that the American colonies should stand up for their rights. Hoover's Bill Whalen takes a closer look in the latest Founders & Fellows.

John Dickinson x Bill Whalen: Team Player

The “Penman of the Revolution” whose ideas were mightier than the musket.

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Semiconductors are essential to American economic and military power, yet the US depends on a fragile global supply chain for the world’s most advanced chips. The Stanford Emerging Tech Review lays out how the US can keep leading in the semiconductor ecosystem: setr.stanford.edu/technology/s...

The US built the postwar international order at the height of its power, but that system began to fray as global power shifted. Hoover's Kiron Skinner highlights the strategic misjudgments and political discontent that created the opening for a new approach to American leadership.

From the Postwar Order to the Trump Doctrine

Published August 3, 2026 The postwar international order rested on American economic strength, military power, and a network of institutions and alliances designed for the Cold War. As new threats eme...

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AI is rapidly revolutionizing how we study hard but verifiable problems in math and coding, but politics is much harder. Hoover Senior Fellow Andy Hall explores the progress being made.

Proofs and Petitions in the AI Era

AI is rapidly revolutionizing how we study hard but verifiable problems in math and coding...politics, though, is much harder. In this week's System Check, I explore how we're making progress.

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AI is making extremist propaganda, like Holocaust denial and Nazi apologetics, more prevalent. John-Clark Levin and Hoover's Niall Ferguson argue that the solution doesn't lie just in technical fixes—it requires a cultural commitment to truth. Read via The Free Press.

The Death of History

Tools that once debunked Holocaust denial are powerless against AI and the algorithm. Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin ask: Is there a remedy?

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Steven Davis speaks with Aaron Chalfin and Max Kapustin about focused deterrence, a strategy combining targeted law enforcement, trusted community voices, and social services to interrupt cycles of violence. Watch the full episode of Economics Applied: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4t2...

Polish Foreign Minister @radek-sikorski.bsky.social reflects on NATO's original purpose and argues that the alliance's greatest security challenge has shifted eastward. Watch the full convo with H.R. McMaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvd69nkP4c&feature=youtu.be

Most discourse about Israel or Palestine is a morality play of good guys vs bad guys. In the latest EconTalk, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction.

The Political Economy of Palestine Featuring Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Most discourses about Israel or Palestine are morality plays of good guys vs bad guys. Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different approach.

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At 19, Coleman Hughes picked up a Thomas Sowell book from his father's shelf, expecting to read the work of someone he had been told not to agree with. Instead, he found ideas that answered questions he had long struggled to articulate. Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=XeWGy3fVkK8&feature=youtu.be

Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates joined current and former Hoover Veteran Fellows for a three-day gathering celebrating five years of veteran leadership, service, and community impact.

Veteran Fellowship Program at Five: Hoover Veteran Fellows Take Point

Hoover convened current and alumni veteran fellows for a celebration of the accomplishments and impact of the program’s first five cohorts.

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Economist Ralph Ossa argues that the WTO is under strain, but not collapsing. It can be selectively renewed through open plurilateral agreements and stewardship by middle powers, he writes.

The World Trade Organization: A Path to Renewal

Its economic logic endures. But keeping the benefits of a global economy also calls for new models of cooperation.

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TUNE IN: Space isn’t as empty as you think – especially the low-orbiting space around Earth populated by satellites and debris. Hoover science fellow Simone D’Amico discusses how to make the “space highway” safe, secure, and sustainable.

(Space) Safety First: Safeguarding Earth’s Lower Orbit with Simone D’Amico

Outer space isn’t as empty as you might imagine – especially the low-orbiting space around Planet Earth heavily populated by orbiting satellites and space debris. Hoover Institution science fellow Sim...

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Homelessness is growing again in LA, despite billions of dollars set aside to combat it. Hoover Fellow Lee Ohanian argues that political dysfunction is the chief culprit.

How Los Angeles Lost the War on Homelessness

Public claims of “control” clash with reality: the population keeps growing. Waste, corruption, and high housing costs share the blame, but the true culprits are ideological blinders and a lack of pol...

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Civic culture doesn't begin in Capitol Hill. It starts at the community level when we understand our own values, knowledge, and role in society. The Civic Profile helps you discover your unique approach to citizenship, civic engagement, and democracy. ⤵️

Civic Profile: Discover your unique profile

What are your civic values? How can you best engage as an American?

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Tom Siebel was a history major before founding C3 AI. On a new episode of Only in America, he tells Hoover Director Condoleezza Rice that 15 years of emphasis on STEM has discouraged students from studying history, classics, languages, and literature. Full convo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1vz...

The new Tech Futures Lab at Hoover aims to help scholars, technologists, and policymakers anticipate and prepare for strategic surprises from AI and other emerging technologies. The Stanford Report shares more about the Lab's first convening.

New Stanford lab asks, what could catch us off guard?

The new Tech Futures Lab at Stanford’s Hoover Institution aims to help scholars, technologists, and policymakers anticipate and prepare for strategic surprises from AI and other emerging technologies.

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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins argues that the US squandered an opportunity by overregulating crypto. Blockchain is the real breakthrough, he says, and could make markets faster, more efficient, and more secure. Watch Uncommon Knowledge: youtube.com/watch?v=UYQVjdos0g4&feature=youtu.be

China’s technological progress has been viewed with admiration, alarm, and even doubt. In a new paper, Hoover Fellow Amit Seru and coauthors compiled a dataset of almost fourteen million domestic Chinese patent publications to better understand the Chinese innovation ecosystem.

Chinese Sputnik Moments?

China's technological progress in recent decades has been viewed with admiration, alarm, and (in some cases) doubt. To better understand the Chinese innovation

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On a new episode of Only in America, Hoover Director Condoleezza Rice sits down with entrepreneur and C3 AI founder Tom Siebel to explore the ideas, institutions, and freedoms that fuel American innovation. Siebel shares why he believes America's greatest days are still ahead.

Tom Siebel On Education, Reinvention, And The AI Revolution

Siebel says America's education system, commitment to liberty, and culture of opportunity remain the foundation of its success.

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Proponents of the California Billionaire Tax argue that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act created a $19 billion per year budget hole. Is that math correct and does the OBBBA justify the wealth tax? New research by Hoover scholars examines the claim.

Medi-Cal And One Big Beautiful Bill: Federal Medicaid Reforms And The Fiscal Premise Of California's Billionaire Tax Act

Proponents of the 2026 California Billionaire Tax Act argue that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 created a "$19 billion per year budget hole" in California's "already underfunded health...

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The American Founders made radical claims about human freedom. Hoover is asking creators to interpret, challenge, or reimagine those ideals on video. Each division winner will receive $2,500. Entries close August 28 ⤵️

Ideas in Motion: A Creator Competition on The Spirit of ’76

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The Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution, has a more complex legacy in his native France, writes Dan Edelstein. There, he is remembered as a moderate, but also as a royalist who never believed republicanism was possible in his homeland.

Lafayette x Dan Edelstein: Revolution in Two Lands

The heroic French aristocrat, who fought for American liberty, was oddly tolerant of the “evil of monarchy” in his homeland.

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Thomas Sowell is known as an economist. But is he one of America's greatest historians? Victor Davis Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and Coleman Hughes explore Sowell's sweeping view of history, his enduring ideas, and why a new generation is discovering his work decades after it was written.

Thomas Sowell As Cultural Historian: A Conversation With Coleman Hughes, Victor Davis Hanson, And Sir Niall Ferguson

What made Thomas Sowell one of the most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals of the last half century? Victor Davis Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and Coleman Hughes explore Sowell's sweeping h...

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Hoover Senior Fellow Sumit Ganguly writes on @npr.org about the common “fault line” across South Asia where “elite privilege endures even as youth opportunities stall."

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South Asia's leaders have long boasted about their demographic dividend. But the region's young people are turning it into a political reckoning. n.pr/4pJsVJg

The US is giving long-overdue attention to its neighborhood. Actions involving Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela have set the stage for a strategy to reorder the Americas, writes Hoover Fellow Joseph Ledford.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? Choices in the Americas

Transformative approaches to Mexico, Cuba, and China in our neighborhood.

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The inaugural NextGen Roundtable: Decision 2026 drew 400 first-time voters to Washington to deliberate, not debate, policy questions ahead of the midterms. Hosted by the Close Up Foundation in partnership with the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, Generation Lab, and Hoover.

NextGen Roundtable: Decision 2026 Demonstrates the Promise of Deliberative Democracy

Can young Americans engage across political differences with respect? The inaugural NextGen Roundtable: Decision 2026 offered a compelling answer: yes.

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World models are AI systems designed to build working representations of an environment. They have many positive use cases but also raise policy concerns. A new @stanfordhai.bsky.social paper, featuring Hoover's Amy Zegart, outlines a governance agenda for world models and spatial intelligence.

The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language | Stanford HAI

This brief highlights the emergence of world models and outlines a first-of-its-kind governance and policy agenda for the technology.

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