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Deep Dive: Criminal Justice and Prison Reform

July 3, 2015

Aspen Ideas Festival 
Bruce Western joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic), Shaka Senghor (#cut50), and Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago).




Democracy in the Dumps

May 26, 2016

Radio OpenSource | Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, guests. Discussion with Andrew Sullivan, Jedediah Purdy, Gordon Wood, and Francis Fukuyama. [Audio: 51 minutes].



Democrats are losing to Republicans at the state level, and badly. Here's why.

August 3, 2016

Vox | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Theda Skocpol. "Faced with a loose-cannon 2016 GOP presidential nominee who disagrees with them on key issues, Charles and David Koch — the two billionaire "Koch brothers" — are directing the vast resources of their political network toward down-ballot races. This should alarm liberals greatly," write Hertel-Fernandez and Skocpol.

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. '16) is an assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.



Did We Lose the War on Poverty? (part 2 of 2)

April 2, 2015

New York Review of Books | By Christopher Jencks



Do Republicans Really Want the Black and Latino Vote?

December 15, 2015

The Root | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Prof. of Public Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.



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.



Do Value-Added Estimates Identify Causal Effects of Teachers and Schools?

October 30, 2014

Brookings Institution—The Brown Center Chalkboard | by Thomas J. Kane



Does Big Money Make for Dark Politics?

January 27, 2017

WGBH Innovation Hub | A conversation with Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Jane Mayer, journalist and author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.



Does Inequality Matter? Foreign Affairs' Brain Trust Weighs In

December 13, 2015

Foreign Affairs [gated] | Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, is among a group of leading scholars asked to assess the political consequences of economic inequality in this online-only forum, which (annoyingly) requires registration or individual subscription to view.
The January-February print issue of Foreign Affairs leads with a series on inequality—"what causes it, why it matters, what can be done." The issue features articles by Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan), François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics), Pierre Rosanvallon (College de France), Danielle Allen (Harvard University), and Anthony B. Atkinson (London School of Economics).



Does more rigorous middle school math coursework change students’ college readiness?

April 27, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Shaun M. Dougherty, Joshua S. Goodman, Darryl V. Hill, Erica Litke, and Lindsay C. Page. Joshua Goodman is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

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