Today, Stephen Redding links the high and changing tariffs levied against US trading partners to diminished US productivity and real income. Rose Gottemoeller reflects on the legacy of US privateer John Manley. And Ross Levine and Amit Seru point out that efforts to make mortgages more affordable have actually made housing more expensive. 

Hoover Daily Report | August 6, 2026

Today, Daniel Lipinski notes parallels as well as key differences between the rise of the Tea Party and today’s Democratic Socialist movement; Ross Levine advances both the economic and the moral case for market-based capitalism; and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya returns to GoodFellows to discuss his efforts to restore Americans’ trust in public health and scientific institutions. 

Hoover Daily Report | August 5, 2026

Today, John Cochrane explains how the counterintuitive realities of interest rates and inflation present a policy pickle for the voting members of the Federal Reserve; Jon Hartley explores the economic signals sent by the California Democratic Party in officially endorsing the billionaire wealth tax ballot measure; H.R. McMaster speaks with a former prime minister of Iraq about challenges and opportunities facing a new government in that nation; and Bill Whalen writes about the “team player” of the American Revolutionary era, statesman and soldier John Dickinson.

Hoover Daily Report | August 4, 2026

Today, Russ Roberts speaks with author Hussein Aboubakr Mansour about the roles that both domestic and international actors play in the political economy of Palestine; Lee Ohanian reviews the current state of homelessness policy in Los Angeles, critiquing various failed approaches; and Peter Berkowitz pushes back against the “postliberal” arguments of Notre Dame’s Patrick Deneen to defend the philosophical foundations of the American republic. 

Hoover Daily Report | August 3, 2026

Today, Victor Davis Hanson offers a scenario for what may come next in the US war on Iran. C3.ai CEO Tom Siebel speaks to Condoleezza Rice in the latest episode of Only in America. And Hoover’s Veteran Fellowship Program marks five years of veteran initiatives to help US communities.

Hoover Daily Report | July 31, 2026

Today, Victor Davis Hanson and Niall Ferguson discuss Thomas Sowell’s legacy as a historian of culture; Dan Edelstein explores the different legacies of the Marquis de Lafayette in the US and France; and Miles Yu explains what lessons from recent conflicts in Ukraine and Iran might mean for a future war with China, as well as how to prevent it.

Hoover Daily Report | July 30, 2026

Today, Hoover announces the launch of a new video series celebrating and extending the ideas and impact of the one and only Thomas Sowell; Šumit Ganguly explains how widespread corruption and a lack of economic opportunities for young people have fueled popular protest movements across South Asia in recent years; and Joseph Ledford reviews the “transformative” American foreign policy shifts underway in the Western Hemisphere and their implications from Cuba to China.

Hoover Daily Report | July 29, 2026

Today, Hoover celebrates the 100th episode of Today’s Battlegrounds; Larry Diamond analyzes how James Madison incorporated wisdom about human nature into the US Constitution; Amit Seru and Mickey D. Levy write about the promise of new Federal Reserve task forces identifying potential reform opportunities at the central bank; and John Cochrane comments on a recent open letter calling on policymakers to “steer” AI development.

Hoover Daily Report | July 28, 2026

Today, a new episode of the UnArchived video series explores how new technologies are disrupting longstanding theoretical foundations of warfare; Matthew Kahn takes a look at the business plan for state-owned supermarkets in New York City; and Šumit Ganguly notes the consequences for both the US and India of a new Trump administration rule that is likely to curb foreign enrollment in American colleges.

Hoover Daily Report | July 27, 2026

This Friday, Jonathan Gienapp and Jane Calvert discuss the significance of newly discovered Revolutionary-era documents seeking a diplomatic resolution of the American colonies’ issues with Great Britain; Yasuyuki Todo argues that closer trade ties with Japan would help protect the US from supply-chain disruptions; and Russell Berman offers his assessment of how Germany’s national government should handle a possible AfD victory in September state elections.

Hoover Daily Report | July 24, 2026