Hoover Daily Report | June 16, 2026

Hoover Daily Report | June 17, 2026

Today, Maurice Obstfeld argues the only byproduct of the Trump administration’s trade agenda are numerous, costly disruptions. The Free Speech Unmuted team explores a bizarre case that asks whether sending a digitally altered, sexually explicit image of a cartoon character to a public office holder is protected speech, or a heinous crime. And David L. Leal explores whether the UK’s local council elections last month can hint at what is to come for future parliamentary elections. Hoover Daily Report | June 17, 2026 [https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/wednesday-june-17-2026]

Hoover Daily Report | June 16, 2026

Today, Hoover invites those in the Bay Area to a special public event honoring individuals who fled authoritarian regimes in search of liberty, featuring Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado; Andrew Roberts speaks with author Tomiwa Owolade about the limits of applying American ideas on race in Britain; and Amy Zegart and Emerson Johnston report updated findings on the talent pipeline powering Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, identifying important problems and realities for US policymakers to address.  Hoover Daily Report | June 16, 2026 [https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/tuesday-june-16-2026]

Hoover Daily Report | June 15, 2026

Today, Frank Dikötter describes the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the steps the US and its allies must continue to take to counter the aggressive aims of this regime; Rose Gottemoeller explores how new military technologies are changing the logic of nuclear deterrence; and Michael McFaul compiles the political, military, and technological evidence that, more than four years in, Ukraine is winning its defensive war against Russia.  Hoover Daily Report | June 15, 2026

Hoover Daily Report | June 12, 2026

This Friday, John Cochrane and Amit Seru call on Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve to focus on reforming financial regulations; Mike Kuiken and Randy Schriver point out how China is benefiting and learning from the wars in Ukraine and Iran, with an eye toward Taiwan; and Eric Hanushek places a recent uptick in student achievement scores in the context of education outcomes so far this century.  Hoover Daily Report | June 12, 2026 [https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/friday-june-12-2026]

Hoover Daily Report | June 11, 2026

Today, Steven Koonin lays out the challenges and trade-offs involved in attempting to regulate the development of frontier AI models; H.R. McMaster speaks with the prime minister of Greece about security cooperation and economic development in the Eastern Mediterranean; and Elizabeth Economy discusses the Chinese Mao-era Long March sketches held at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Hoover Daily Report | June 11, 2026 [https://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-daily-report/thursday-june-11-2026]