Hoover Institution

In a Stanford Civics Initiative course, students confront the complex tensions that emerge in balancing core constitutional principles and political change.

The accelerator aims to enhance policymaking by providing insights into how emerging technologies are reshaping geopolitics, society, and the economy.

Benjamin Nathans’ acclaimed history of Soviet dissidents drew on rare records from Stanford’s Hoover Institution: “When I first opened up that stuff, I could not believe what I had found.”

During a recent event, Hoover and Stanford panelists weighed in on pressing AI-related topics, including labor and workforce adaptation, antitrust concerns and innovation, and regulation.

Allison Okamura, a science fellow from Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, is working on a new generation of robots that can help care for people in their homes as they get older. She answers seven questions about what life with ‘soft robots’ could look like.

At the 2025 Conference on Collaborative State and Local Policy Research, civil servants and leading policy scholars from 17 states gathered to discuss innovative new government programs and fresh ways of evaluating existing ones.

A new initiative at Stanford’s Hoover Institution is examining why trust in American institutions has declined, and what can be done to restore it.

Many 21st-century leaders see every failure of an economic model as reason for government intervention, Argentine President Javier Milei told an audience at the Hoover Institution, but such interventions hinder growth.

Stanford students had the opportunity to explore historical materials housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives firsthand through the Bread + Medicine project.

While recessions are difficult, they are temporary, says Stanford economist John Cochrane. What is more painful is long-term economic slowdown and stagnation.