President Barack Obama’s announcement yesterday of a six-year, $476 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill, as part of his…
Compared to many of my colleagues, I am more inclined to read academic journals from cover to cover rather than just the one or two papers…
Defense secretary Leon Panetta recently announced a new Pentagon strategy: fewer troops, and a 30 percent increase in the US fleet of…
Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, we show that female leadership influences adolescent girls' career aspirations and…
Climate change is more uncertain, more
global, and more long-term than most issues facing humanity. This
trifecta makes a policy…
“You get to ask the questions you like. I get to give the answers I like,” Mitt Romney told a reporter dissatisfied with an evasive answer…
The cloak of inevitability that Mitt Romney has been wearing -- on again, off again -- is suddenly and dramatically off again. Just as he…
I work for the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School. Roy L. Ash, who died last month, stood for…
One of the most pervasive debates about managing people is whether using “hard” or “soft” approaches produces better performance. Hard…
If our politics weren't so fluid and volatile, one would think, now that the votes are tallied in New Hampshire, that the race for the…