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Trump's Triumph and Social Science Adrift...What is to be Done?

November 22, 2016

American Sociological Association | Essay by Michèle Lamont, President of the American Sociological Association. Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard.



Trump's presidency is teaching elites like me a lesson

April 26, 2017

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and a political theorist at Harvard. "One of the key questions for any effort to rebuild our capacity to collaborate is whether members of the professional elite can recover a commitment to the people as a whole, and not merely to those who live near them — near us, I should say — in urban enclaves," Allen writes.... Read more about Trump's presidency is teaching elites like me a lesson



Trump's Outreach to Black Voters May Really Be About White Voters

September 2, 2016

NPR Morning Edition | Interview with Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Trump's Outreach to Black Voters May Really Be About White Voters



Trump's Budget isn't Going Anywhere, says Ex-CBO Director

March 17, 2017

Bloomberg | Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, joins to discussTrump's budget proposal and look at growth potential for the U.S. economy. (video: 6 minutes)



Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will shape the Republican Party

February 29, 2016

Washington Post | Alexander Hertel Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology) are interviewed about their research on how Koch brothers-funded organizations have been changing the Republican Party in profound ways. Interviewed by political scientist Henry Farrell of George Washington University.



Trump Transition Continues

November 30, 2016

WBUR Greater Boston | Prof. Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School guests.



Trump Syllabus 2.0

June 28, 2016

Public Books | By N.D.B. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University) and Keisha N. Blain (University of Iowa). Featuring work and contributions by Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Connolly and Blain provide the background: "On June 19th, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a web version of a mock college syllabus that sought to explore the deep historical and political roots of Donald Trump’s political success during the 2016 Presidential campaign. The syllabus suffered from a number of egregious omissions and inaccuracies—[detailed in a public letter signed by nearly 350 scholars, which ran in the Chronicle on June 23]—including its failures to include contributions of scholars of color and address the critical subjects of racism, sexism, and xenophobia on which Trump has built his candidacy."



Trump Is Going After Health Care. Will Democrats Push Back?

December 21, 2016

The New York Times | By Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. "...Repealing Obamacare means eliminating the taxes that subsidize health care for low- and middle-income people," a point that must be made clear, Skocpol writes. "That huge and immediate tax cut for the rich would lead to the demise of subsidized health insurance for millions of less privileged Americans in rural, suburban, and urban communities."



Trump attacks cities, but they’re the lifeblood of our country (Part 2)

March 8, 2017

Washington Post | In part 2 of his interview with Jennifer Rubin, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser "explains how we know cities — and not self-selecting city dwellers — are responsible for the city phenomenon, and what the federal government should be doing about it."



Trump attacks cities, but they’re the lifeblood of our country (Part 1)

March 8, 2017

Washington Post | A conversation with Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. "Perhaps the most troubling division to me is the gap in prime age joblessness between urban and rural America. That gap is widening perilously," Glaeser says. "In 1980, only about nine percent of men between 25 and 54 were jobless in both urban and rural America. Today, the jobless rate is about 15 percent in America’s metropolitan areas, which is slightly below the national average, and about 19 percent outside of metropolitan America."

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