An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example. Anyone who…
Zoe Marks is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and teaching focuses on the intersections of…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
This is the first installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books…
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998. At HGSE, he…
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in…
Get in touch with your inner journalist. Share your research, opinions, and ideas. Put your academic skills to practice.Consider getting…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…
This article argues that the United States of America is quite different from other OECD countries in its religiosity (America is much more…
Book Abstract: This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the…