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Hoover Daily Report | July 22, 2026 · Hoover Daily Report

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  Welcome to the Hoover Daily Report. "Ideas Advancing
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  Freedom." It's Wednesday, July 22nd, twenty twenty six.
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  Today, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins shares his plans to make initial public
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  offerings more attractive and less burdensome to firms seeking capital.
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  Jacob Greegul outlines five possible pathways for US security strategy
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  concerning Europe. And Bill Whalen asks if Gavin Newsom can straddle opposing
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  political personas as he weighs a run for president.
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  Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on Ending Regulation by
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  Enforcement.
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  America was an investment before it was a nation. That idea anchors this
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  conversation between SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and Peter Robinson on the latest
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  episode of Uncommon Knowledge. Atkins argues that vibrant capital markets are
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  essential to American prosperity and explains why he believes excessive
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  regulation has discouraged companies from going public and innovators from building
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  in the United States. The discussion also covers crypto, disclosure rules, investor
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  protection, and the role of free markets in driving economic growth.
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  AI for Hearing-Impaired Workers: A Good News Story.
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  Hundreds of millions of people around the world are deaf or hard of hearing, which
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  can impair job performance. Can AI tools help? On the latest episode of Economics,
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  Applied, Senior Fellow Steven J. Davis speaks to Yanyou Chen of the University
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  of Toronto and Mitchell Hoffman of UC Santa Barbara, who studied the effects of
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  a new AI tool on the productivity and wages of hearing-impaired workers in the
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  food delivery business in mainland China. They also discuss how the profit motive
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  drove the adoption and diffusion of the new AI tool, raising these workers’
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  earnings.
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  Five Choices for US Strategy Toward Europe.
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  Europe remains vitally important to US foreign policy for a host of strategic,
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  cultural, and political reasons, says National Security Visiting Fellow Jacob
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  Greegul in a new piece on Freedom Frequency. Even so, long-held policy
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  approaches that sustained growth and security through and beyond the Cold War
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  need to be updated—but how? Russian and Chinese aggression are among the greatest
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  drivers forcing the United States and Europe to ask profound questions about
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  their shared future. Those questions include which partnerships Washington
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  should emphasize; where the United States should keep military bases and what those
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  forces should do; how much America should strive to influence European domestic
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  affairs; and whether Europe can be encouraged to continue relying on US arms
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  supplies. Such questions—some of them stark—point to a time of realignment that
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  the historical allies must confront.
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  NextGen Roundtable: Decision 2026 Demonstrates the Promise of Deliberative
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  Democracy.
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  Can young Americans engage across political differences with curiosity,
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  respect, and a genuine willingness to learn? The inaugural NextGen Roundtable:
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  Decision 2026 offered a compelling answer: yes. Convened July 8–11 in
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  Washington, DC, the initiative brought together 400 first-time voters selected
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  to reflect the demographic, geographic, and ideological diversity of the nation.
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  Hosted by the Close Up Foundation in partnership with the Stanford
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  Deliberative Democracy Lab, Generation Lab, and Hoover’s Center for Revitalizing
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  American Institutions, the program challenged participants to deliberate—not
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  debate—some of the nation’s most pressing policy questions ahead of the 2026
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  midterm elections. Building on the success of America in One Room: The Youth
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  Vote, the event reflects a growing body of evidence that structured deliberation
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  can strengthen civic knowledge, reduce polarization, and increase trust across
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  differences.
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  He Can Run, But Can He Straddle?
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  In the latest installment of California on Your Mind, Distinguished Policy Fellow
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  Bill Whalen wonders whether Governor Gavin Newsom, laying the groundwork for a
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  presidential run, will be able to firm up his message after years of presenting
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  different faces to the electorate. Will Newsom play the tough pol who reins in
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  cost and corruption, even as some see him as a shady overseer? Will he stump for
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  “AI safety” or will he decline to “overregulate” the AI golden goose? Does
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  he stand against a wealth tax in California but believe it should be
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  imposed on the whole nation? Whichever way Newsom turns while crafting his
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  national message, the governor will need to avoid the pitfalls of previous
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  politicians such as John Kerry and his famous explanation: “I actually did vote
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  for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”.
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  Featured Hoover Publication.
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  The Moon as a Test Case for Coercion Theory: US Interests in a New Space Race.
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  China aims to land taikonauts on the Moon before 2030—before the US returns to the
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  lunar surface—and set the operating rules that will govern future lunar activity.
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  Traditional deterrence won’t work in a domain where the US is unable to project
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  military force, and space treaties lack enforcement. This essay presents four
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  conflict scenarios to show what’s at stake, and proposes a near-term US
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  strategy of accelerated missions, allied coordination, clear red lines, and
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  concrete military doctrine.
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  That’s your Hoover Daily Report for Wednesday, July 22nd, twenty twenty six.
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  Each weekday, we bring you research, analysis, and commentary focused on
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  public policy, national security, and the ideas shaping American society and
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  government.
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  The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is grounded in constitutional
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  principles with a commitment to sustaining the safeguards of the American
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  way of life.
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  Thank you for listening.
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  For links to all the articles and interviews mentioned today, visit
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  hoover.org slash, HDR.