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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'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 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 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, Made in America

May 3, 2016

Le 1 Hebdo | By Bart Bonikowski, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Published in French as 'Un pur produit Américain'.



Trumpcast: What does Trump’s Victory Mean for Education Policy?

November 10, 2016

EdNext Podcast | Education Next’s Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government) and Martin West (Ph.D ''06, Associate Professor of Education) talk about what education reforms they expect from President-elect Donald Trump. Will he move on school choice, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Title I portability, charter schools, or something entirely unexpected? 



Trumpism as a Transatlantic Phenomenon

March 8, 2016

The American Prospect | By Charlotte Cavaillé (Ph.D. '14), Noam Gidron (Ph.D. candidate in Government), and Peter A. Hall (Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies). Cavaillé is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. She joins the Georgetown University faculty in July.



Trump’s Defective Industrial Policy

January 10, 2017

Project Syndicate | By Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.



Trump’s Education Pick: A Win for Public-School Parents

December 12, 2016

Wall Street Journal | By Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governnance at Harvard. Differences in satisfaction levels between parents with children in public schools versus private and charter schools—revealed in Education Next's 2016 national survey—suggest that school choice might be the answer for parents who want more for their kids, Peterson argues.



Trump’s weird adherence to this 1980s concept explains his whole presidency

May 28, 2017

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor. "We know where that story ends: with increased incarceration, further degradation of urban neighborhoods, no durable change in rates of drug use and a failure to address addiction," Allen writes.

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