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How the Women’s March Could Have a Lasting Historical Impact

January 19, 2017

Teen Vogue | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution.



What Does Free College Mean?

January 17, 2017

Harvard Graduate School of Education | A Q&A with David Deming (Ph.D. '10), a professor at the HGSE and Harvard Kennedy School.

Among the research highlighted in this interview, a study of the Adams scholarship in Massachusetts, by Sarah Cohodes (Ph.D. '15) and Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Oct 2014); and a new paper by Deming and Christopher Walters of UC Berkeley, "The Impacts of Price and Spending Subsidies on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment."



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.



A resistance movement made in America

January 26, 2017

Radio Open Source | Among the guests, Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and co-author (with Theda Skocpol) of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012).



Pressure From Trump May Delay a Factory’s Exit, but It Won’t Stop It

January 27, 2017

The New York Times | Economic View column by Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.



Why Betsy DeVos’ vision of education does little to ensure equity

February 6, 2017

The Hechinger Report | By Natasha Kumar Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education. "Betsy DeVos promotes a vision for society that outwardly extols the idea of equity but in reality does little to ensure it," writes Warikoo.



Could this be the left's tea party moment?

February 12, 2017

CNN | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Williamson is the author of the forthcoming book Read My Lips: Why Americans are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017), and co-author with Theda Skocpol of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republian Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012).



An Indivisible Democratic Tea Party

February 13, 2017

NPR's On Point | Among the guests, Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press, 2012).



We were the victims of fake news

February 8, 2017

Brookings Institution | By Norm Eisen and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15),  both fellows in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. "This week, we discovered that our real work is being used to promote 'fake news'. As Yahoo News has reported, an obscure website, the “Center for Global Strategic Monitoring,” has been putting policy experts’ names on articles they did not write..."



Trump Should Support Bipartisan "Evidence Based" Revolution

February 22, 2017

Real Clear Policy | By Robert Doar and Andrew Feldman (Ph.D. '07). Feldman is a Visiting Fellow in the Center on Children and Families in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and a researcher with the Evidence-Based Policymaking Collaborative. Robert Doar is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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