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5 Ways Candidates Mislead You in Debates

September 25, 2016

Politico | A guide to the tactics of deception and why they work—based on the research of behavioral scientist Todd Rogers, Associate Professor of Public Policy.



5 Books You Need to Understand the Origins of Incarceration

November 8, 2016

The Nation | Khalil Gibran Muhammad's The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2011) is among the works recommended by Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard and the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Harvard University Press, 2016).



30 Issues | A History of Voting Rights in America

October 17, 2016

WNYC—The Brian Lehrer Show | Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard  Kennedy School and author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic Books, 2009), discusses the evolution of the voting rights throughout history and the challenges women and African Americans have faced in this pursuit. 



21 intriguing new ideas and trailblazing people

January 4, 2017

The Boston Globe | Harvard sociologist and MacArthur Fellow Matthew Desmond, for his "on the ground observations of the daily lives of the American poor."



2019 in Research Highlights

December 27, 2019

American Economics Association | Among the top 10 research highlights of 2019, "Tech: Economists Wanted." An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector. Michael Luca is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.



2017 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner Announced

May 8, 2017

Awardee | Matthew Desmond receives 2017 top honor for Evicted, announced today by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.
 



2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform released

August 1, 2017

Education Next | By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Samuel Barrows. This article appears in print in the Winter 2018 issue of Education Next.



2016 Kirkus Prize Finalist: Matthew Desmond

October 10, 2016

Kirkus Reviews | Interview with Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, who talks about the people he interviewed and how they shared their lives with him.



2016 Hutchins Forum: Race and the Race to the White House

August 18, 2016

PBS NewsHour |The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University held its annual summer Hutchins Forum. Among the panelists: Inequality & Social Policy faculty affiliates Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. View the video via PBS NewsHour.

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, PBS NewsHour
  
  
• Charles M. Blow, The New York Times
• Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee
• Armstrong Williams, The Right Side
• Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School
• Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University



2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards: Matthew Desmond

March 1, 2017

Awardee | The winners of the 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards in fiction and nonfiction were announced today in a ceremony in New York City. Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City took first place in the non-fiction category. Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

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