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A conversation: Matthew Desmond and Alex Kotlowitz

May 15, 2016

Chicago Humanities Festival | Professor Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and author of Evicted, joins author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz in conversation. Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here. The conversation was part of Our Cities, a day-long event presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival in collaboration with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in honor of the 35th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program. View video [21 minutes].



A Conversation with Robert D. Putnam [Video]

March 14, 2016

Conversations with Bill Kristol | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, discusses declining levels of civic participation in America and his interpretation of the reasons for it. He also recalls how political developments awakened his interest in political science, and explains how social science might help us address public policy problems. [Video: 70 minutes]



A Conversation with Jeb Bush [video]

September 29, 2016

Harvard IOP | A conversation with Jeb Bush, moderated by Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, and Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, in the JFK Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School.



A conversation on immigration and policy

March 30, 2016

Bloggingheads.tv | Economist Glenn Loury (Brown University) talks immigration with George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. [video: 39 minutes]



9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016: Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers

September 12, 2016

Politico | By George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They're each telling only half the truth, writes Borjas. One of Politico's "9 Big Ideas That Explain 2016."  




74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

November 3, 2017

The 74 | Harvard's Jal Mehta on why school reforms fail, how they can succeed, and what makes teaching so complex. Jal Mehta (PhD '06) is an asociate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.



74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration

May 10, 2017

The 74 | Professor David Deming (PhD '10) on the lasting benefits of Head Start, school accountability, and integration. Deming is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.



53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama's Legacy

January 15, 2015

New York Magazine | Theda Skocpol



30 Issues | A History of Voting Rights in America

October 17, 2016

WNYC—The Brian Lehrer Show | Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard  Kennedy School and author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic Books, 2009), discusses the evolution of the voting rights throughout history and the challenges women and African Americans have faced in this pursuit. 



2016 Hutchins Forum: Race and the Race to the White House

August 18, 2016

PBS NewsHour |The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University held its annual summer Hutchins Forum. Among the panelists: Inequality & Social Policy faculty affiliates Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. View the video via PBS NewsHour.

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, PBS NewsHour
  
  
• Charles M. Blow, The New York Times
• Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee
• Armstrong Williams, The Right Side
• Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School
• Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University

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