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When African-American Voters Shifted Away from the GOP

August 25, 2016

NPR—All Things Considered |NPR's Robert Siegel talks with historian Leah Wright Rigueur, whose book, The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power, explores the history of the relationship between African-Americans and the Republican Party. Rigueur is an assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.



When Does Accountability Work?

October 27, 2015

Education Next | By David Deming (Faculty, Ph.D. '10), Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15, now Columbia), Jennifer Jennings (NYU), and Christopher Jencks



When Muhammad Ali endorsed Ronald Reagan

June 10, 2016

Washington Post | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Americans were caught off guard, but the move reflected the complexity of the legendary champion’s public life, writes Rigueur.



When risk means reward, angry CEO's dominate

May 25, 2017

PBS NewsHour | Psychologist Jennifer Lerner, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, talks about what her research on anger, testosterone, and risk-taking can tell us about who rises to the top. (Video + transcript)



When Workers Become Owners

June 21, 2016

No Jargon [Podcast—Ep. 38] | Harvard economist Richard Freeman joins Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse of Rutgers University to explain how sharing the ownership or profits of a company with workers can improve productivity, pay, and work life quality—all while reducing economic inequality. No Jargon presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Subscribe  in iTunes, or listen to individual episodes at the SSN website.



Where History and Humanities Meet Public Policy: Q+A with Khalil Gibran Muhammad

September 27, 2016

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy | Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who joins the Harvard Kennedy School faculty this year as Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, sits down for an interview about the challenges facing America after the presidential election, the importance of the humanities, and the need to pay attention to the black public sphere.



Where the candidates stand on criminal justice and policing

October 19, 2016

PBS Newshour | Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School guests.



Where will the White House begin and the Trump Organization end?

November 14, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.



Where you grow up matters in an unequal economy. Here's how.

October 26, 2017

PBS NewsHour | Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics, is interviewed for this segement. [Video and full transcript] 



White gloves, aluminum cans, and plasma

May 11, 2016

Marketplace: The Uncertain Hour (podcast)| A look back at how families have fared in the two decades since welfare reform, with perspectives from David Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty [audio: 34 minutes].

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