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PolicyEd EDUCATING AMERICANS IN PUBLIC POLICY

The digital media revolution has transformed the way people obtain information and form opinions.

PolicyEd offers a credible and accessible source of facts, analysis, and information about public policies where engaged people can turn for the knowledge and analytical skills to think through the critical issues of the day. Countless outlets make assertions and offer up sound bites. The term “alternative facts” recently entered the lexicon. Where can engaged people turn for the knowledge and analytical skills to think through the critical issues of the day for themselves? PolicyEd offers a credible and accessible source of facts, analysis, and information about proposed public policies and the effects of those already enacted. THE HOOVER INSTITUTION

PolicyEd is sponsored by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution as part of the Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich Initiative, Educating Americans in Public Policy. Since its founding nearly 100 years ago, the Hoover Institution has sought to promote economic opportunity and prosperity, secure peace, and improve the human condition. This new effort will build on our legacy of substantive scholarly policy inquiry where partisan advocacy has become the norm.

09/14/2026

Like earlier transformative innovations, AI could power the next era of economic growth. But concerns about jobs, misinformation, and political disruption have fueled calls for preemptive regulation, raising a central question for America: How can it address AI's risks without suppressing its potential?

Watch a new installment of Policy Stories with Hoover Senior Fellow John H. Cochrane: https://plus.hoover.org/plus/research/should-we-regulate-ai-its-too-late

09/01/2026

A healthy civic culture depends not only on institutions, but on how citizens participate in public life. Rebuilding it requires political engagement, greater restraint in public discourse, and a willingness to preserve common civic bonds across deep disagreement.

Watch the Q&A session from Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson's talk at Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp:

09/01/2026

American self-government depends on power being divided, limited, and accountable to voters. That balance erodes when unelected officials expand their authority, constitutional procedures are bypassed, and national sovereignty is ceded to institutions beyond direct democratic control.

Watch Part 2 of Hoover Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson's talk at Summer Policy Boot Camp: https://www.hoover.org/plus/research/part-2-erosion-american-self-government

09/01/2026

A self-governing society depends on citizens who share civic knowledge, economic independence, and allegiance to a common national culture. Sustaining that system requires a strong middle class, successful assimilation, and a civic identity that rises above tribal loyalties.

Watch Part 1 of Hoover Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson's talk at Summer Policy Boot Camp: https://www.hoover.org/plus/research/part-1-what-holds-america-together

08/21/2026

Restoring trust in medicine and public health requires more than new policies. It depends on open debate, personal responsibility, limits on government power, and a willingness to challenge consensus when the evidence points elsewhere.

Watch Part 3 of Senior Fellow Scott Atlas' talk at Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp:

08/21/2026

America's healthcare system combines high spending with incentives and regulations that weaken competition and disconnect patients from the price of care. Greater consumer control, more competition, and fewer barriers to entry can lower costs while preserving access, quality, and innovation.

Watch Part 2 of Hoover Senior Fellow Scott Atlas's talk at Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp:

08/21/2026

Public trust in health institutions has fallen sharply, while debates over healthcare often focus on spending and insurance coverage rather than the care patients actually receive. Access to timely treatment, effective care, and medical innovation provides a broader measure of healthcare performance.

Watch Part 1 of Hoover Senior Fellow Scott Atlas' talk at Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp:

08/21/2026

In the Q&A section, Valerie Ramey considers when fiscal stimulus may be justified, why some COVID-era spending went too far, and which policy tools can produce the strongest short-run effects. The discussion underscores a basic constraint: stimulus must be judged not only by what government spends, but by the economic gain it produces relative to the debt it leaves behind.

Watch Part 3 of the talk from the Hoover Institution's Summer Policy Boot Camp:

08/21/2026

Keynesian fiscal stimulus has repeatedly returned during economic crises, from the Great Depression to the financial crisis and COVID. But stimulus paid for through government borrowing has also contributed to a lasting rise in public debt, raising the question of whether the economic payoff has justified the fiscal cost.

Watch Part 1 of Valerie Ramey's talk at the Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp:

08/18/2026

Preventing a conflict over Taiwan requires more than US military strength. The US and its allies must coordinate their political, military, and economic power to deter China and preserve peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Watch a new Policy Stories with Hoover Fellow Eyck Freymann:

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