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What Trump’s Campaign Speeches Show About His Lasting Appeal to the White Working Class

November 8, 2017

Harvard Business Review | By Michèle Lamont, Bo Yun Park, and Elena Ayala-Hurtado. Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American studies. Bo Yun Park and Elena Ayala-Hurtado are PhD students in Sociology at Harvard.



What three economists think you should know on Equal Pay Day

April 4, 2017

PBS NewHour—Making Sen$e | Featuring Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics.



What the Press Still Doesn't Get About Trump

April 28, 2017

Politico | Politco surveys a range of experts—among them, historian Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Says Rigueur: We need to take Trump's tweets more seriously.



What makes field organizers effective? Being like the people they want to persuade

May 21, 2015

Washington Post | Eitan Hersh (Yale) discusses study co-authored with Ryan Enos (Harvard).



What is the Biggest Misconception About Racism?

October 28, 2015

The Atlantic [video, 3 minutes] | Bruce Western is among those interviewed in this video segment filmed earlier this year at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Also featured: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, student activist Clifton Kinnie of Howard University, Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Tracey Meares of Yale Law School.



What is Donald Trump's Foreign Policy?

February 4, 2017

Inside Story—Al Jazeera  | Joining the discussion, Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School.



What Inequality Looks Like Right Now

March 17, 2017

WGBH Innovation Hub | Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, guests to talk about wealth inequality.



What Happens to People Who Get Evicted Over and Over?

March 4, 2016

New York Magazine | Interview with Matthew Desmond about his new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Desmond also cites work by Harvard colleagues Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics; Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences; and Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy.



What Growing Inequality Means for Our Kids

March 24, 2016

WGBH Greater Boston | Interview with Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy [video: 7 minutes].



What four types of American nationalism can tell us about Trump voters

February 6, 2017

Washington Post | By Bart Bonikowski (Harvard) and Paul DiMaggio (NYU). Trump appeals to American nationalism, but which one? Based on the authors' research, "Varieties of American Popular Nationalism," recently published in the American Sociological Review.
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