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Separation of parties or powers? Congress seems unwilling to oversee a rampant executive.

The Trump administration’s opening weeks have been a whirlwind of action, including more than 80 executive orders, a Department of Government Efficiency that has shut down agencies and fired tens of ...
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Explainer: What’s happening with gerrymandering in the United States—and who will “win” the redistricting battle?

American states traditionally redraw their congressional districts every 10 years. Recently, states have begun redrawing districts mid-cycle to give a political advantage to a particular party. Texas, ...
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Sudden turns and long-lived investments: Trump administration energy and climate policies

Climate and energy policies have swung significantly between one presidential administration and another. The difference between the Biden administration and the second Trump administration will be ...
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Explainer: How do tariffs work and how will they impact the American and global economy?

Over the past week, President Donald Trump announced, and then largely paused, a new tariff regime more severe than anything seen in more than a century, and certainly out of step with the United ...
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Experts on the Middle East analyze the causes of the war in Israel and Gaza and look ahead

The war in Israel and Gaza has already taken a huge human toll. On Friday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, leading experts from Harvard and beyond discussed the intractably complicated questions ...
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The Development of Police in the U.S.: Suppressing and Stoking Racial and Class Conflicts (11/5/25)

Looking broadly across time and space, and tracing histories of policing in Britain and the United States, Julian Go will join us for the fifth session of our Criminal Law as a Tool of Authoritarian ...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece ...
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The End of the Federal Reserve as We Know It?

September 26, 2024, Opinion: "Donald Trump attacked the Federal Reserve throughout his presidency, complaining about interest-rate increases and lobbing insults at Chairman Jerome Powell. In his bid ...
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The Rise of Remote Work Evidence on Productivity and Preferences From Firm and Worker Surveys

October 24, 2024, Paper: "Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of ...
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Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect

Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises, especially for loser stocks, ...
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Transforming Domestic Work: Ai-jen Poo’s Vision for Collective Empowerment and Social Change

For more than 25 years, Ai-jen Poo has worked to transform the field of domestic work. As president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and executive director of Caring Across Generations, Poo’s ...
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The Ghost Budget: How U.S. war spending went rogue, wasted billions, and how to fix it

April 1, 2024, Audio: "HKS Senior Lecturer Linda Bilmes, an expert on public finance who has studied post-9/11 war costs for the past 20 years, says their staggering $5 trillion price tag was enabled ...