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Voter Suppression Returns

July 15, 2012

Harvard Magazine | by Alexander Keyssar



Video: Matthew Desmond Testifies before House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee

April 14, 2016

U.S. House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee | Testimony of Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences, House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing, "The Failure of Trickle Down Economics in the War on Poverty." 



US tax reform is vital but Donald Trump’s plan is flawed

January 8, 2017

Financial Times | By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University. This column also ran in the Washington Post.



Understanding the Sources of Inequality

August 11, 2015

National Bureau of Economic Research | Roland Fryer talks about the economics of inequality and the central questions that drive his research in this NBER video chat (4 minutes).



Understanding Health Care's Short-Termism Problem

September 28, 2015

Harvard Business Review | By Amitabh Chandra and Dana Goldman (USC)



Under New Administration, Small Measures Could Foster Big Change

February 1, 2017

Education Next | By Martin R. West (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. What to expect in education from President Trump.



U.S. Election Coverage: Leah Wright Rigueur

November 6, 2016

Al Jazeera TV | Tune in November 6-9 as Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, joins Al Jazeera TV's U.S. elections coverage team as they broadcast live from AJTV studios.



U.S. economy faces a painful comedown from its 'sugar high'

December 10, 2017

Financial Times | By Lawrence H. Summers, Charles Eliot University Professor. Signs of strength are largely unrelated to government policy, Summers argues. "The proposed tax cuts may prolong the sugar high. But they are no substitute for the new economic foundation we so desperately need."



Two Takes on the Fate of Future Cities

April 21, 2017

The Atlantic—CityLab | A conversation between Ed Glaeser and Richard Florida on what urban policy needs to work towards in an uncertain future. Edward Glaeser is Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard.



Two Immigrants Debate Immigration

November 26, 2016

Reason | A spirited exchange between George J. Borjas and Shikha Dalmia on the empirical claims and proposed policy prescriptions in Borjas's new book, We Wanted Workers. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dalmia is a Reason Foundation analyst.

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