Featured series 
Tag: Government
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Nation & World
Has Homeland Security kept up with its mission?
Former DHS secretary says U.S. safer now than before 9/11, agency has largely successfully evolved with emerging threats
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Science & Tech
When the sea steals homes and jobs
Along West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, Salata Institute research is helping communities weigh excruciating choices
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Health
Crackers are past date on box. Should I toss them?
Policy expert says new California law highlights need for national standards on safety labels to cut high levels of U.S. food waste
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Nation & World
Making the case for independent science
Med School lecturer nods to wider implications in blueprint for Hungary
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Nation & World
Why we need to break the grip of ‘oldigarchy’
Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems
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Work & Economy
Are we headed toward recession? Unpredictable.
Economic historian rebuts various beliefs about cause, concerns around downturns, explains why expansions are more important anyway
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Nation & World
How AI may change public policy, how we lead
Kennedy School unveils 10-year strategic plan that features robust new focus on promise, perils of technology
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Nation & World
You’re getting a divorce. What happens to the frozen embryo?
Panelists dig into fraught legal, ethical questions at heart of fertility cases
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Nation & World
Garber warns of disruptions to ‘unprecedented’ scientific progress
Policy changes for research funding, international students threaten U.S. momentum, he says
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Nation & World
Will Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance yield big changes for parties?
Nicholas Stephanopoulos says probably not, but it may make it easier for wealthy donors to bypass individual giving limits
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Nation & World
When ‘base’ of Republican Party shifted
In new memoir, Lamar Alexander says it used to be just elected officials, voters. Then came rise of more extreme activist groups, worsening polarization.
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Work & Economy
Furman on Social Security: Attention must be paid
‘Interest in the problem has diminished over time, not grown.’ Meanwhile, day of reckoning is ahead of schedule.
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Nation & World
Constitution was made to be amended. So what’s stopping us?
Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks
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Nation & World
SCOTUS might surprise you
Sarah Isgur argues growing distrust of justices says more about our tribalism than any change in way judiciary works
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Nation & World
How U.S. ties to Japan help manage rising challenge of China
Region expert Kenneth Weinstein argues real challenge in Indo-Pacific is economic, not military
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Campus & Community
Getting to the root of what drives war
After years of photographing combat, Seth Rosenberg finds new focus: psychology of power
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Campus & Community
Lessons from Beyoncé on public policy
Professor sees parallels between songs on overlooked life experiences of the marginalized, unintended gaps in government safety net
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Nation & World
Over the American dream? Watch this.
Video series spotlights schools, communities where economic mobility is top of mind
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Campus & Community
Probing the war of public opinion
Seeing Americans rally for her native Ukraine inspired Anastasiia Pereverten’s thesis
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Nation & World
Breyer makes case for civic education
Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom
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Campus & Community
Presidential dreams can wait. For now, she can’t stop painting.
When Daniela Solis took an art class junior year, ‘it felt like time stopped.’
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Campus & Community
Why are other kids starving?
Witnessing poverty as a child sparked Luiza Lima Vieira’s quest to vanquish hunger — but first, she had to learn to listen to her own body
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Nation & World
Deterring the next nuclear arms race
Experts assess threat landscape amid war, lapsing treaties, declining faith in U.S. security guarantee
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Nation & World
Got personal financial, medical data you’d like to keep private? Good luck.
AI and society expert warns new agentic releases to increase odds cybercriminals, hackers will be able to breach secure systems
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Health
Dangers coming from inside the house
John D. Spengler reflects on 50-year career of clearing the air — including in hockey rinks and on airplanes
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Nation & World
Voting goes to court
Election law expert assesses challenges to state authority as parties look ahead to midterms
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Science & Tech
Time for government, business leaders to figure out AI cybersecurity regulation
Experts say capabilities of agentic AI rising, along with risk to personal data, economy, national security
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Nation & World
How 3 mayors are combating homelessness
City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis
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Nation & World
What it will take to turn things around
Mitt Romney offers critique on nation’s divisiveness, foreign policy, value of hard, thankless work of governing
