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Talking Tehran: Journalists Jason and Yeganeh Rezaian discuss Iran

04.7.17

The journalist couple share their thoughts and insights on Iran, in their first joint public event since being released from prison.

Media

The Stories that Saved the Affordable Care Act

04.6.17

BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY “I think I’m going to start with Fred.” I nodded. “That makes sense.” Fred was Nathan’s brain tumor. Fred was also a tried and true opener. It was a little weird, grabbed your attention, and then gave you a bridge into the real story about Nathan’s health insurance. Nathan even described Fred […]

Healthcare
ISIL graffiti

ISIL may be losing on the battlefield. But it’s winning elsewhere.

04.4.17

The terrorist group aims to shrink the “grayzone”: the plane of coexistence between Muslims in the West and their non-Muslim countrymen.

International Relations and Security

Interview: Steven Brandt, a Conservative Voice at HKS

04.4.17

BY ANDY VO At a campus like Harvard, it can be hard to find a conservative millennial. I initially reached out to Steven to discuss what it was like being just 23 years old and already a Masters student at HKS on a fellowship through the Air Force Academy. We met at Algiers Café, and […]

Politics

HKS Students Launch Resistance School

04.4.17

By the Resistance School Team Resistance School provides training for communities to make sustained issue and electoral change that advances values of fairness, equality, and inclusivity. Mission: Resistance School aims to deepen community-based organizing infrastructure nationwide to secure issue and electoral victories at the local, state, and national level and advance progressive values of fairness, […]

HKS Welcomes New Belfer Center Director, Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter

03.31.17

By David Duesing, MPP 2018 On Tuesday, March 28, the Kennedy School learned of an exciting development within its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs—the current director, Graham Allison, recently requested to step down from his position, and his position will be filled by former Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter. The Kennedy School […]

"Yes We Ban"

Turkey’s Broad(band) Aspirations

03.30.17

When it comes to IT, tech-savvy Turkey has big potential and ambitions – but could be hampered by government censorship and wary investors.

Science, Technology and Data

How Immigrants Don’t Want Other Immigrants

03.26.17

We’ve been extraordinary in economic development. We can be as good at defeating xenophobia. BY ROYCE QUEK Rome wasn’t built in a day: and it also wasn’t built by the people and riches of its own lands. Instead, its armies conquered Greece, North Africa and Asia Minor through the manpower of not just Romans, but the many Roman allies: fellow Italian cities which had been subjugated by Rome and were forced to give soldiers to the Roman war machine. With this strategy of co-opting other cities into its growing dominion, Rome swept all before it. But the Italians weren’t happy …

Social Policy

Activity Fees to Rise from 2018

03.24.17

By Sasha Ramani, MPP 2018 Beginning in the 2018 academic year, student activity fees will be raised from their current level of $175 to $230/year. The decision was jointly made and endorsed by the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG), Melissa Wojciechowski (Senior Director of Student Services) and Dean Karen Jackson-Weaver (Senior Associate Dean for Degree […]

Recycling at HKS Needs a Restart

03.24.17

By Ketilbjørn Hertz, MC/MPA 2017 Can you tell me how many different waste containers HKS employs and what each of them is for? If you cannot, when you have waste to dispose of, do you at least follow the instructions on the waste containers and place your waste in the appropriate container? Before I started […]

For Smarter Debate and Better Policy, Let’s Scrap the ‘Killer Robots’

03.23.17

By Katherine Mansted Will the rise of intelligent machines spell doom for humanity? Popular movies and news reporting on artificial intelligence (AI) would certainly have us think so. In Hollywood’s imaginings, AI is dangerous and uncontrollable. AI seduces: recall Ex Machina’s calculating femmebot. AI murders: think of the homicidal HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space […]

Science, Technology and Data

Cultural Competency the Key to Latino Health Policy

03.23.17

Despite more than three decades of empirical evidence from sociological and anthropological research that clearly shows that culture plays a significant role in the health care decision making process within Latino society, Latino cultural beliefs still remain the least understood among service providers in the American health care delivery system. This is in part due […]

Healthcare

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