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Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

Daniel Schneider finds that state paid sick leave laws increased service workers’ access to paid sick leave and reduced the share of service workers who worked while sick.

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Feature: Connecting Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobility

Deirdre Bloome offers two frameworks for understanding the relationship between types of intergenerational mobility, or whether people are socioeconomically better off than their parents.

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Feature: Studying a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups

Michael Walton explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program, finding two major tensions.

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Feature: The Data-Informed City

Jorrit de Jong presents a comprehensive framework for how cities can use data to address problems more effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with better accountability.

Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy

Power, Samantha. "How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy." Foreign Affairs 102.2 (March/April 2023): 22-37.

La ventaja de Estados Unidos y la oportunidad de Biden: el poder de la capacidad de hacer

Power, Samantha. "La ventaja de Estados Unidos y la oportunidad de Biden: el poder de la capacidad de hacer." Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica 21.1 (January 2021): 2-15.

This Won't End for Anyone Until it Ends for Everyone

Power, Samantha. "This Won't End for Anyone Until it Ends for Everyone." New York Times, April 7, 2020.

Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now

Power, Samantha. "Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now." New York Times. September 19, 2017.

Foreword: The Inexorable Joyfulness of Elie Wiesel

Power, Samantha. "Foreword: The Inexorable Joyfulness of Elie Wiesel." Night: A Memoir. Hill and Wang, 2017.

The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World

Power, Samantha, ed. The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World. Public Affairs, 2011.

For Terrorists, a War on Aid Groups

Power, Samantha. "For Terrorists, a War on Aid Groups." New York Times, August 19, 2008.

A Question of Honor

Power, Samantha. "A Question of Honor." Time. August 14, 2008.

The Democrats & National Security

Power, Samantha. "The Democrats & National Security." Review of Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security, by J. Peter Scoblic, and Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias. New York Review of Books, 55.13, August 14, 2008: 66-72.

Book 'Em

Power, Samantha. "Book 'Em." Time. August 4, 2008.

Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops

Power, Samantha. "Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops." Time. July 22, 2008.

Saving Zimbabwe

Power, Samantha. "Saving Zimbabwe." Time. July 14, 2008.

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

Power, Samantha. Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World. Penguin Press, 2008.

Talking to Evil

Power, Samantha. "Talking to Evil." Time. June 23, 2008.

Engage Your Enemies

Power, Samantha. "Engage Your Enemies." Time. June 23, 2008.

The Short Tail

Power, Samantha. "The Short Tail." Time. June 2, 2008.

George Mitchell

Power, Samantha. "George Mitchell." Time. May 12, 2008.

Woe, Canada!

Power, Samantha. ""Woe, Canada!"." Time. April 28, 2008.

Ghosts of Kosovo

Power, Samantha. "Ghosts of Kosovo." Time. March 10, 2008.

Rethinking Iran

Power, Samantha. "Rethinking Iran." Time. January 17, 2008.

The Envoy: The United Nation's Doomed Mission to Iraq

Power, Samantha. "The Envoy: The United Nation's Doomed Mission to Iraq." New Yorker. January 7, 2008.

The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy

Power, Samantha. "The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy." Time. October 18, 2007.

The Human-Rights Vacuum.

Power, Samantha. ""The Human-Rights Vacuum."." TIME. October 11, 2007.

Access Denied.

Power, Samantha. ""Access Denied."." TIME. September 26, 2007.

How to Stop Genocide in Iraq.

Power, Samantha. "How to Stop Genocide in Iraq." Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2007.

Our War on Terror

Power, Samantha. "Our War on Terror." Review of U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror; and On Suicide Bombing, by U.S. Army/Marine Corps, Ian Shapiro, and Talal Asad, respectively. New York Times Book Review, July 29, 2007.

United it Wobbles: Should We Blame the UN for its Shortcomings, or the Countries that Make Up the World Body?

Power, Samantha. "United it Wobbles: Should We Blame the U.N. for its Shortcomings, or the Countries that Make Up the World Body?" Review of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power, by James Traub and Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, by Adam LeBor Washington Post, January 7, 2007.

Quizzing Robert Gates.

Power, Samantha. "Quizzing Robert Gates." New York Times, December 4, 2006.

Fixing Foreign Policy.

Power, Samantha. "Fixing Foreign Policy." Harvard Magazine July-August 2006.

The Void: Why the Movement Needs Help.

Power, Samantha. "The Void: Why the Movement Needs Help." New Republic May 15, 2006.

Punishing Evildoers.

Power, Samantha. "Punishing Evildoers." Washington Post, April 23, 2006.

Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry!

Abramowitz, Morton, and Samantha Power. ""Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry!"." Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006.

Missions.

Power, Samantha. "Missions." New Yorker November 28, 2005.

Talk of the Town: Boltonism.

Power, Samantha. "Talk of the Town: Boltonism." New Yorker March 21, 2005.

Court of First Resort.

Power, Samantha. "Court of First Resort." New York Times, February 10, 2005.

A Hero of Our Time

Power, Samantha. "A Hero of Our Time." New York Review of Books. November 18, 2004.

It's Not Enough to Call It Genocide

Power, Samantha. "It's Not Enough to Call It Genocide." Time. October 4, 2004.

Dangerous Ideas: Business as Usual at the U.N.

Power, Samantha. "Dangerous Ideas: Business as Usual at the U.N." Foreign Policy 144 (September/October 2004).

Dying in Darfur: Can the Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Be Stopped?

Power, Samantha. "Dying in Darfur: Can the Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Be Stopped?" New Yorker August 30, 2004.

Break Through to Darfur: Combine Leverage, Internationalism and Aid to Stop the Killing in Sudan.

Power, Samantha, and John Prendergast. ""Break Through to Darfur: Combine Leverage, Internationalism and Aid to Stop the Killing in Sudan."." Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2004.

The Lesson of Hannah Arendt.

Power, Samantha. "The Lesson of Hannah Arendt." New York Review of Books April 29, 2004.

Remember Rwanda, but Take Action in Sudan.

Power, Samantha. "Remember Rwanda, but Take Action in Sudan." New York Times, April 6, 2004.

Remember the Blood Frenzy of Rwanda.

Power, Samantha. "Remember the Blood Frenzy of Rwanda." Los Angeles Times, April 4, 2004.

The Everything Explainer

Power, Samantha. "The Everything Explainer." Review of by Noam Chomsky. New York Times Book Review, January 4, 2004.

Introduction.

Power, Samantha. "Introduction." The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. .Schocken Books, 2004, ix-xx.

Foreword

Power, Samantha. "Foreword." Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, by Roméo Dallaire. Carroll & Graf, 2004, xiii-xvii.

Still Life

Power, Samantha. "Still Life." Rwanda: After. Ed. Michal Ronnen Safdie. Carr Foundation, 2004.

Unpunishable.

Power, Samantha. "Unpunishable." New Republic December 29, 2003: 18-20.

War Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry.

Power, Samantha. "War Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry." New York Times, December 14, 2003.

How to Kill a Country.

Power, Samantha. "How to Kill a Country." Atlantic Monthly December 2003.