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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 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 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 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.



What's Wrong with Our System of Global Trade and Finance

June 9, 2017

Talking Points Memo | In a Q&A, John Judis talks with Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. Rodrik's newest book, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy, will be published in November 2017 by Princeton University Press.



What's the Biggest Fear of a Trump Presidency?

November 9, 2016

The New York Times | By Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. 



What's Replacing No Child Left Behind?

December 7, 2015

Harvard EdCast | Martin West (Ph.D. '06, now faculty) discusses the big changes in federal legislation replacing No Child Left Behind, and what it may mean.



What's next? In the wake of the election, HKS faculty discuss the coming challenges

February 9, 2017

Harvard Kennedy School Magazine
Still fresh from the political earthquake of 2016, leading experts at the Harvard Kennedy School came together to assess the new landscape in a series of roundtables in November. Surveying the economy and social policy: Doug Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School; David Ellwood, Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, and Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management.



What will become of us under Trump? It depends on each of us.

November 9, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and contributing columnist. 



What We Can Make of the Election of 2016: An Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad

January 5, 2017

History News Network | Video interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, conducted at the 2017 convention of the American Historical Association. Muhammad spoke earlier in the evening at a plenary session on "The First Hundred Days: Priorities for a New US President." The session, recorded by C-SPAN, will be available within a few weeks.

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