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White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people.

July 21, 2016

Washington Post | By Samuel Sommers (Tufts) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School): Our research found whites think anti-white bias is more of a problem than anti-black bias. Our research also suggests that among whites, there’s a lingering view that the American Dream is a “fixed pie,” such that the advancement of one group of citizens must come at the expense of all the other groups.
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Whither Central Banking?

August 23, 2019

Project Syndicate | By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stanwbury. Anna Stansbury is a PhD candidate in Economics and a Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.



Whither the Sanders Left?

September 21, 2016

Democracy Journal| By Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. Part of Democracy's fall symposium on "The Unseen Election".



Who Are Immigration's Winners and Losers?

October 17, 2016

WBUR—Radio Boston | Both major party candidates have staked claims on the impact of immigration on the U.S. Harvard economist George Borjas says each side of the debate is ignoring key points about the economic impacts of immigration. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published this month by W.W. Norton and Company.



Who Gets to Vote?

September 30, 2016

The New York Times | By Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Who Gets to Vote?



Who is affirmative action for?

June 23, 2016

Boston Globe | By Natasha Kumar Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Why ultimately the narrow diversity defense of affirmative action is harmful, Warikoo argues. Draws from her forthcoming book based on research with undergraduates at Ivy League universities, The Diversity Bargain (University of Chicago Press).



Who Owns the Robots Rules the World: The Deeper Threat of Robotization

April 15, 2016

Harvard Magazine | By Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics



Who Read What in 2016

December 7, 2016

Wall Street Journal | What Matthew Desmond and 49 others named as their favorite book this year. Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the author of Evicted.



Who's Afraid of a Health-Care Ruling?

February 20, 2015

The Atlantic | By Theda Skocpol



Whose Fault is Ferguson? The Roots of Our National Discord

May 18, 2015

Miller Center American Forum | Speaker: Orlando Patterson. Television broadcast: June 7th on many PBS stations (Note: Not carried in Boston-area). Audio and video will also be made available on the Miller Center website.

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