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Young voters shifted right in the 2024 election; the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation examined why

One of the most surprising statistics from the 2024 presidential election was the surge of support President Trump received from Gen Z voters. While these voters, born between 1997 and 2012, turned ...
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The health insurance subsidies behind the government shutdown

The U.S. government shutdown is in its third week as funding bills have failed to garner the necessary votes from both Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government. At the center of this ...
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Juan Jimenez: Bringing real-world development and political experience to bear on complex challenges

Economist and public leader Juan Jimenez MPA/ID 2010 has returned to Harvard Kennedy School as a lecturer in public policy. An expert in political economy and economic development, Jimenez served as ...
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Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential ...
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AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI

2023, Opinion: "Karim Lakhani is a professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in workplace technology and particularly AI. He’s done pioneering work in identifying how digital transformation ...
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MC/MPA Edward S. Mason Program

The Edward S. Mason Program—the oldest international program at Harvard University—empowers experienced public leaders from transitional economy, developing, or newly industrialized countries to make ...
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Pippa Norris

Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at HKS, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government, has taught at Harvard for three decades. She compares democracy, ...
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Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH

Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023), Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2012-2021), and Chief of the Division of ...
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Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts

In the fall of 2020, the release of Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System (“the Report”) marked a potentially important turning point in efforts to address long-standing racial ...
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India's GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications

India changed its data sources and methodology for estimating real gross domestic product (GDP) for the period since 2011-12. This paper shows that this change has led to a significant overestimation ...
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Thucydides’ Trap: Peace and rivalry between the United States and China

HOW SHOULD LEADERS AND POLICYMAKERS THINK about relative shifts in power between countries? Are there principles from history that countries can look back to that help understand geopolitical tensions ...
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Joseph Aldy

Joe Aldy is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a University Fellow at Resources for the ...