Featured series 
Tag: Government
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Nation & World
Class surges as factor in who gets sent to prison
Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study
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Nation & World
Danger ahead
Former national security official surveys hot spots in Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe — and how new president’s ideas are being received
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Nation & World
Who’s softer on crime? Democrats or Republicans?
Turns out neither. New research finds mayors on both sides mixed in implementing effective policies.
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Nation & World
Who can save us from social media? At this point, perhaps just us.
Nicholas Carr argues it may be too late for regulation as platforms took hold so quickly, outpacing our ability to spot darker effects on society, democracy
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Nation & World
Is TikTok’s time nearly up?
Privacy and cybersecurity law expert examines national security, First Amendment issues as popular video website faces legal deadline
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Nation & World
Are reparations the answer?
Harvard symposium explores case for restitution to Black Americans legally, economically, ethically
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Work & Economy
How China tariffs could backfire on U.S.
Economists say there could be unintended consequences, including higher prices, supply chain disruptions, and possibly opening door to improving Beijing’s ties to American allies
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Nation & World
‘Because Larry has shown up for us’
Friends, colleagues gather for 70th birthday conference honoring economic scholar, former Treasury Secretary and University President Lawrence Summers
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Nation & World
What Trump got right
Kellyanne Conway, president-elect’s 2016 campaign manager and former senior adviser, discusses election, what comes next
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Campus & Community
Ketanji Brown Jackson? Present!
Supreme Court justice revisits Michael Sandel’s class, which left her with lessons that lasted long beyond her time in it as first-year
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Work & Economy
How free-market policymakers got it all wrong for decades
Conservative economist says singular focus on deregulation, unfettered trade failed to deliver for American households
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Nation & World
What’s ahead for U.S. foreign policy in ‘Trump 2.0’?
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser predict push to end Ukraine war on Russia’s terms, instability for NATO, possible global realignment
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Nation & World
Many in Native communities applaud U.S. apology over boarding schools
Deloria, Gone say action over decadeslong initiative to forcibly assimilate children overdue, necessary
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Nation & World
Did Trump election signal start of new political era?
Analysts weigh issues, strategies, media decisions at work in contest, suggest class may become dominant factor
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Nation & World
Why it’s become harder to project presidential winner on election night
Elections and public opinion expert details lessons learned since 2000, rise of absentee voting
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Nation & World
‘A sense of illumination, if not calm, about the fate of American democracy’
Social Science faculty lend insight, analysis ahead of election
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Nation & World
IGs oversee most federal agencies. Why not the Supreme Court?
Inspector general would boost accountability, trust in federal judiciary, argues Glenn Fine in talk promoting new book, ‘Watchdogs’
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Science & Tech
Amid Hurricane Milton’s devastation, a sliver of good news
Cellphone data suggest evacuation mandates, warning systems worked
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Nation & World
Key to negotiated peace in Ukraine? Having the West keep Russia honest.
Former defense minister says U.S., allies need to continue financial, arms aid, remove curbs on missiles to bring Putin to table
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Nation & World
Your side might lose. But you don’t have to lose your mind.
Political engagement is healthy. Doomscrolling? Not so much.
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Nation & World
How can higher ed make democracy better?
Kennedy School panel says it’s a combination of knowledge — and skills
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Campus & Community
Seeing them as current events and not really new
Jill Lepore, Maya Jasanoff, Kirsten Weld launch course that views present as wholly connected to the past
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News+
How to apply cool-headed reason to red-hot topics
Michael J. Sandel brings back wildly popular ‘Justice’ course amid time of strained discourse on college campuses
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Nation & World
A tale of three cities — and their turn to right in heartland
Government professor’s new book focuses on roles of race, class, and religion in evolution of former New Deal Democrats
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Nation & World
‘The first new information we’ve heard in 50 years’
Unseen Legacies researchers are answering decades-old questions about the fates of Vietnamese soldiers
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Work & Economy
Consumers to see benefits of Fed rate cut, but how much and when are less clear
Jason Furman looks at decision, considers what it means to economy, both Wall Street and Main Street
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Work & Economy
Raise corporate tax rates! No, cut them! Maybe take a look first?
New study scrutinizes what did, did not work as disputed 2017 law becomes partisan football in election year
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Nation & World
Lawyers reap big profits lobbying government regulators under the radar
Study exposes how banks sway policy from shadows, by targeting bureaucrats instead of politicians
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Nation & World
Why Democrats, Republicans, who appear at war these days, really need each other
Political philosopher Harvey C. Mansfield says it all goes back to Aristotle, balance of competing ideas about common good
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Work & Economy
Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor
Economist gathers group of Boston area academics to assess costs of creating tax incentives for developers to ease housing crunch
