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Get Ready for Technological Upheaval by Expecting the Unimagined

September 2, 2017

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics. "Let us craft our policies not just for what we expect but for what will surely surprise us," Mullainathan writes.



The one thing the self-employed want more than a tax cut

December 18, 2017

Washington Post | Digs into a new NBER Working Paper by Harvard economist Stefanie Stantcheva  (joint with Ufuk Akcigit, Akcigit, Ufuk, Philippe Aghion, Mathieu Lequien), "Tax Simplicity and Heterogeneous Learning."
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In ‘Cuz,’ the story of a cousin’s tragic fate and justice system in crisis

December 19, 2017

PBS NewsHour | In her new book “Cuz,” Danielle Allen looks to her own family tragedy for a deeper understanding of gangs, American drug policy and the consequences of mass incarceration, predominantly for young, African-American men. The author sits down for an interview. [Video and transcript]



15 Professors of the Year: Danielle S. Allen

September 14, 2017

Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson |Danielle Allen, one of the 15 Professors of 2017, has been trying to shift the conversation from inequality to equality. An interview.



15 Professors the Year: Roberto G. Gonzales

September 14, 2017

Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson | Roberto Gonzales has done extensive research on undocumented immigrant youth and young adult populations in America. An interview.



The Life of a South Central Statistic

July 24, 2017

The New Yorker | By Danielle Allen. My cousin became a convicted felon in his teens. I tried to make sure he got a second chance. What went wrong?  Danielle Allen is a political theorist and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. She is the author of Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A., from which this essay is drawn.



Charlottesville is not the continuation of an old fight. It is something new.

August 13, 2017

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor.



‘One of so many millions gone’: how my cousin’s life was taken from him

November 17, 2017

The Guardian | By Danielle Allen. At the age of just 15, Michael was sent to prison for 11 years. On his release, I tried to help him start again. Why did his story end in tragedy? Allen is a political theorist and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. This is an edited extract from Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.



How Place Shapes Our Politics

December 12, 2017

CityLab | Ryan Enos, Associate Professor of Government, talks to Richard Florida about his new book, The Space Between Us. 



How segregation leads to racist voting by whites

November 28, 2017

Vox | By Ryan D. Enos. Political scientists use new tools — and draw on psychology — to explain how and why “social geography” shapes attitudes. Ryan Enos is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard and the author of The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics, just published by Cambridge University Press.

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