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Legal hurdles to the Affordable Care Act

January 17, 2016

Oxford University Press Blog | By Lawrence R. Jacobs (University of Minnesota) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thompson Professor of Government &  Sociology). Since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, it has withstood—and overcome—a storm of legal hurdles in the past five and a half years. Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, authors of the newly-published third edition of Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, provide insight into the legal challenges it faced, including the Supreme Court ruling in 2015.



Forced Out: For many poor Americans, eviction never ends.

February 1, 2016

The New Yorker | By Matthew Desmond,  John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. His book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City will be published next month.



Event video: The American Dream in Crisis: Can Education Restore Social Mobility?

February 1, 2016

HGSE Askwith Forum | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, shares insights from Our Kids, his examination of how the American Dream of equal opportunity is in crisis. He is joined by Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Professor of Education, and Meira Levinson, Professor of Education, who consider what educators can do. The research of doctoral fellow Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, gets a shout-out at the 1:09:23 mark.



Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist

February 3, 2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives | By Lawrence F. Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics: "Roland Fryer is an extraordinary applied microeconomist whose research output related to racial inequality, the US racial achievement gap, and the design and evaluation of educational policies make him a worthy recipient of the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal. I will divide this survey of Roland's research into five categories..."



Those Were the Days

January 15, 2016

Wall Street Journal | Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, reviews the new book, The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, by Robert J. Gordon.



Billionaire Ideologues, Unruly Voters, and the Future of the Republican Party

February 3, 2016

Dissent | By Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, on Jane Mayer's Dark Money—and what it misses about today's political right.



We asked six political scientists who is more electable: Trump or Cruz?

February 1, 2016

Vox |Features Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology.



Sanders Beats Clinton 49-49: The Real Story Behind the Iowa Numbers

February 3, 2016

The Root | By Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies: "Americans, especially African Americans, interested in finding a successful, progressive successor to Barack Obama, need to think very carefully about the choices and decisions and all-important votes that lie ahead. Because things that may have seemed obvious six months ago are no longer obvious today."



Do Snow Days Hurt Student Learning?

February 3, 2016

EdNext Podcast [audio] | Marty West, Associate Professor of Education, talks with Josh Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy.



The Race to November 8th

February 5, 2016

WGBH  Basic Black [video] | Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, joins the discussion to explore the significance of black and latino voters to the 2016 election.

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