Today, Philip Zelikow deconstructs the history of laws and principles that have brought the Trump administration’s trade agenda into a collision course with the Supreme Court. John H. Cochrane ties the fiscal discipline demonstrated by Switzerland to its very low inflation numbers. And three of Hoover’s most prominent historians debate how America is faring in the second Trump administration.

Hoover Daily Report | October 14, 2025

Today, H.R. McMaster argues that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader gives the United States an opportunity to push back against autocrats across Latin America; Jay Bhattacharya joins Jon Hartley to discuss his philosophy for running the National Institutes of Health; and Peter Berkowitz highlights the role of the liberal spirit in preserving a healthy political culture. 

Hoover Daily Report | October 13, 2025

This Friday, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton joined CBS News for an in-depth discussion on the challenges and opportunities presented by the Trump administration’s Israel-Hamas peace deal; Elizabeth Economy offers a succinct analysis of the significance of two upcoming meetings between President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping; and Tom Church and Daniel Heil use the financial facts of the government shutdown to draw attention to the high levels of mandatory spending baked into the federal budget. 

Hoover Daily Report | October 10, 2025

Today, Steven J. Davis provides a comprehensive economic analysis of the Trump administration’s trade policies; the Hoover Institution invites you to a celebration of Thomas Sowell’s remarkable intellectual and public policy impact; and Michael McFaul explains the motivations behind his forthcoming book, Autocrats vs. Democrats.

Today, Hoover’s Bio-Strategies and Leadership Initiative releases a new report on securing biology in an age of new threats; Victor Davis Hanson examines the historical forces behind the rise and decline of the post-WWII international system; and Eugene Volokh testifies before members of the United States Senate on the use of government authority to persuade or pressure individuals or other private actors. 

Today, Barry Strauss documents the ways in which Israel’s own history, stretching back millennia, can inform how it handles relations with its neighbors and its continuing campaign to punish those responsible for the October 7 attacks. Contributors to the Middle East and Islamic World Working Group argue Israel has done America huge favors with its post–October 7 campaigns around the Middle East. And Eugene Volokh and Larry Diamond explore the state of free speech in America: one compares it with free speech in the UK and the other focuses on freedom of expression on Stanford’s campus.

Hoover Daily Report | October 7, 2025

Today, Condoleezza Rice announces the launch of the Hoover Institution’s new Substack publication, Freedom Frequency; Peter Berkowitz considers the “least bad option” for achieving peace in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; and Eugene Volokh analyzes the First Amendment implications of the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence” with American universities. 

Hoover Daily Report | October 6, 2025

This Friday, Condoleezza Rice joins the Bold Names podcast from The Wall Street Journal to offer her perspective on the multi-domain geopolitical competition between the United States and China; Dan Wang joins GoodFellows to discuss the argument of his new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future; and Elizabeth Economy speaks with a leading expert on China’s health system about how that country handled the COVID-19 pandemic and is today approaching health diplomacy globally.

Hoover Daily Report | October 3, 2025

Today, David R. Henderson discusses a new book analyzing the economic history of the Great Depression; Lee Ohanian and Bill Whalen break down the politics of California’s Proposition 50 ballot measure, which would allow the State Assembly to redraw the state’s congressional districts; and Mike Kuiken warns of America’s dangerous dependence on China for computer chips that are critical to many industries. 

Hoover Daily Report | October 2, 2025

Today, H.R. McMaster explores the intent of a rare gathering of all of America’s flag officers in a Quantico, Virginia, Marine base auditorium to hear from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Glenn Tiffert and Kevin Gamache find there is an increasing amount of US-Iranian research cooperation occurring today, even as Iran launches increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks on global research institutions. And scholars from Hoover’s Financial Regulation Working Group launch a landmark collaboration with the European Central Bank to predict what may cause the next global financial crisis.