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American apartheid

March 16, 2017

UVA Miller Center | By Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology. Volume 9 in the Miller Center's First Year 2017 project, which examines the key issues the new U.S. president must confront. The current volume, "Grappling with Tensions Over Race," also includes essays by Elizabeth Hinton (Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard), Douglas A. Blackmon, and Michael Eric Dyson (Georgetown University)
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America's Insidious Eviction Problem

March 1, 2016

The Atlantic | Interview with Matthew Desmond, author Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.



America's housing crisis: 'A problem we need to hate more’

February 12, 2017

The Guardian | Sociologist Matthew Desmond on the genesis of Evicted, his acclaimed book about those affected by the eviction epidemic in the US.



Alphachatterbox: Our podcast chat with Claudia Goldin

December 11, 2015

Financial Times [audio: 55 mins]|An in-depth conversation with economist Claudia Goldin about her work on the history of women in the workforce and the causes of the lingering gender wage gap.



All hail partisan politics

February 9, 2017

Harvard Gazette | Harvard historian looks to the past, using case study method to suggest that dogged disputes can strengthen democracy. Interview with David Moss, Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and author of a new book, Democrcy: A Case Study (Harvard University Press, 2017).



Alex Keyssar on President Obama's Historic Trip to Cuba

March 21, 2016

Harvard Kennedy School | Q & A with Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy.



Airbnb Isn’t Doing Enough

September 9, 2016

Slate | By Ray Fisman  and Michael Luca. The company announced plans to combat discrimination on its platform. It’s still falling short, argue Fisman and Luca. Fisman is the Slater family professor in behavioral economics at Boston University. Michael Luca is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.



After Words with George Borjas

October 20, 2016

C-SPAN Book TV | George Borjas talked about his book We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, in which he examines the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. He is interviewed by Edward Alden, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Closing of the American Border.  Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School [video + transcript: 60 minutes].



After Words with George Borjas

October 20, 2016

C-SPAN Book TV | George Borjas talked about his book We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, in which he examines the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy throughout history. He is interviewed by Edward Alden, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Closing of the American Border. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.



After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards

January 27, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson (Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government), Samuel Barrows (Ph.'14, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Educational Policy and Governance at Harvard), and Thomas Gift (also a postdoctoral fellow).

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