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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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Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. is forced to confront its plutocracy problem?

Professors Archon Fung of HKS and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of billionaire ruling partners could be an inflection point in America’s long slide toward rule by ...
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Study across 87 countries shows simple intervention helps build emotional resilience during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic increased negative emotions across the world. People reported poor mental health and behavior problems including sleeping less, consuming more drugs and alcohol, struggling to ...
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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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Understanding the bond market and sovereign risk at a time of economic volatility

Volatility in the bond markets across the world, but especially in the United States, has grabbed the attention of the media and policymakers in recent months. We sat down with Carmen Reinhart, the ...
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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 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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Global Empowerment Meeting

The past year has brought dramatic shifts in global development, including deep aid cuts, volatile markets, rising geoeconomic fragmentation, and intensifying geopolitical tensions. At the same time, ...
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Level Up with the Economic Development Executive Certificate

The Economic Development Executive Certificate at Harvard Kennedy School will help you get to the next level as a leader in your organization. This certificate is designed for leaders focused on ...
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Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are ...