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Lawrence H. Summers and Phil Gramm on Economic Policy and Inequality in America

This hybrid seminar will be a discussion between Prof. Lawrence H. Summers and Sen. Phil Gramm on economics and inequality in America. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor, ...
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Ishan Nath: Addressing the global economic impact of a warming climate

For Ishan Nath, a new assistant professor of public policy, coming to Harvard Kennedy School provided an opportunity to align his economic research with critical climate work at Harvard. A former ...
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China Shock 2.0 and the end of U.S. technological dominance

A decade ago, HKS Professor Gordon Hanson, along with collaborators David Autor and David Dorn, wrote about a phenomenon they called the China Shock, which saw traditional U.S. manufacturing ...
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Examining threats to academic freedom in America and the world

Higher education in the United States is currently under intense scrutiny from the second Trump administration. A new working paper from Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative ...
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New research shows that powerhouse institutions play an outsized role in scientific innovation and discovery

Where does scientific discovery happen, and why does it matter? A recent analysis by Amitabh Chandra, the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, director of the Harvard Healthcare Policy ...
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David Gergen, a towering figure in U.S. politics and founder of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, has died

David Gergen, a trusted adviser to four U.S. presidents who went on to play a pivotal role in shaping leadership education at Harvard Kennedy School, has died at the age of 83. Gergen was a dedicated ...
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Explainer: Executive orders as a governing tool

American presidents have issued executive orders since George Washington was in office. Article Two of the Constitution gives the president the legal foundation to issue executive orders to provide ...
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Dean Jeremy Weinstein celebrates the HKS Class of 2025, calls on graduates to “enter the arena and stay in the fight”

Dean Jeremy Weinstein addressed the 605 graduates of Harvard Kennedy School’s Class of 2025 on Thursday afternoon, following a joyful Commencement in Harvard Yard with all of the University’s ...
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Samantha Power, former USAID administrator and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, returns to Harvard with a joint faculty appointment at the Kennedy School and the Law School

Cambridge, Mass.—On June 1, Samantha Power will return to Harvard Kennedy School as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and to Harvard Law School as the ...
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Understanding the Implications of the UK Supreme Court’s Ruling Defining ‘Sex’ in the Equality Act

The views expressed below are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to ...
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Explainer: How do tariffs work and how will they impact the American and global economy?

Over the past week, President Donald Trump announced, and then largely paused, a new tariff regime more severe than anything seen in more than a century, and certainly out of step with the United ...
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Separation of parties or powers? Congress seems unwilling to oversee a rampant executive.

Ben Schneer on whether Congress is performing its oversight role or is sidelining itself, and whether there’s a historical precedent for the way it is behaving. The Trump administration’s opening ...