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"Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality."

May 8, 2016

Salon | Salon talks with Michael Javen Fortner (Ph.D. '10), Assistant Professor of Political Science at CUNY and the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Harvard University Press 2015), about race, the Clintons, and the 1994 crime bill.



"Cowboy Doctors" and Health Costs

August 20, 2015

Harvard Magazine | Ariel Dora Stern (HBS faculty and Ph.D. '14)



'Understanding Black Youth': Its Cultural Vibrancy and its Challenges

March 19, 2015

WBUR and NPR: Here and Now | Orlando Patterson



'This is death to the family': Japan's fertility crisis is creating economic and social woes never seen before

May 21, 2017

Business Insider | Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, provides perspective.



'The Space Between Us'

January 9, 2018

Harvard Gazette | Ryan Enos, Associate Professor of Government, talks about his new book The Space Between Us (Cambridge University Press), in which he explores how geography shapes politics and how members of racial, ethnic, and religious groups think about each other.



'The Changing Same': Race in America

March 12, 2015

Radio OpenSource |With guest Orlando Patterson



'Pay for Success' in the UK and the US

August 8, 2016

Oxford Government Review | By Jeffrey Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, in the inaugural issue of the Oxford Government Review (p. 50). Liebman and Elizabeth Linos (Ph.D. '16) spoke at the Challenges of Government Conference 2016, held at the University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government in May 2016. Conference summaries and videos are also included at the link.



'Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis', by Robert Putnam

March 6, 2015

Financial Times | Robert D. Putnam



'Our Kids,' by Robert D. Putnam

March 4, 2015

New York Times Book Review| Robert Putnam



'Our Kids' selected for Books of the Year 2015

December 3, 2015

The Economist | Robert Putnam's, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, described as "thoughtful and persuasive", has been selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2015.  Also making the list, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony Atkinson (University of Oxford).

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