BY HAIYANG ZHANG The Trump Administration recently retracted its promise to label China as a currency manipulator—and rightly so. While there was merit to such a claim ten or twenty years ago, labeling China a currency manipulator in 2017 simply misses the mark. In its semiannual foreign exchange report presented to the Congress on April […]

By Wei Luo, MPP 2017 On March 22, the HKS community gathered in the JFK Jr. Forum for a discussion on the future of U.S.-China relations. The event was moderated by HKS professor Arne Westad and featured Graham Allison (director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), Niall Ferguson (Senior Faculty Fellow at […]

According to Robert Ford, former US Ambassador to Syria, there is “not much” the United States can do to shape the outcome of the conflict.

BY IVAN RAHMAN Having worked as a teacher and school leader, I attended Harvard’s 2017 Social Enterprise Conference (SECON) with the hope of discovering solutions to some of education’s most pressing problems. Instead, the conference raised a series of thought-provoking questions about education. Does innovation in public education preserve, or even exacerbate, the status quo […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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 …