By Tim Purinton Bill McKibben, Harvard graduate, former New Yorker columnist and now Middlebury College professor recently packed Sanders Theater and also packed a punch directly at Harvard University. McKibben the unlikely (self-admitted) and outspoken leader of the climate change movement painted a dour picture of climate change and carbon pollution, “By the end of […]

By Tim Purinton, MPP ’14, Staff Writer When the recent federal government shutdown prevented United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack from delivering his scheduled lecture on “Rural Innovation”, the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics was quick to respond with a panel of HKS experts to explore the causes of the situation. The panel on […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer In a future European Union, there cannot be countries that are creditors and there cannot be countries that are debtors. There cannot be countries that design their budgets in silos or banks that are governed by incongruent, contrasting regulations. If Europe is looking to build a financial system that constituents […]

Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, spoke at the Kennedy School last Friday in an event sponsored by the Office for Career Advancement and the Center for Public Leadership. She described how she turned the topic of her senior thesis into an organization that trains thousands of teachers each year and places them […]

Simon R. Bone, Editor-In-Chief The current political stalemate in Washington has made headlines around the world and possibly threatens a global economic  recession. The Republicans are correct in their assertion that debt is at too high a level but they neglect to mention that it was the last GOP administration who drove up that spending. […]

By Simon R. Bone, Editor-in-Chief HKS students enjoying pre-game festivities in Memorial Park on the evening of Saturday 28th September were caught in the aftermath of a violent crime. “We missed the attack by about five minutes. There was no one at the park when we arrived. The first we heard about the stabbing is […]

By MaryRose Mazzola The West prefers Egypt under military rule to control by a democratically elected candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, linguist and political scholar Noam Chomsky told a full audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kresge Auditorium on October 4th. In the discussion, which centered on the past two and a half years […]

BY SARAH ALLIN The nation’s political system was designed as a counterweight to economic inequality, but what happens when inequality enters the democratic sphere that we perceived to be immune? Alex Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, posed this question last week during the taping of WBUR’s On Point. […]

BY KARLY SCHLEDWITZ With a historic overhaul of our health care system underway, I felt like a good public policy student should understand the basics of American health policy. Dutifully, I enrolled in “Introduction to U.S. Health Policy,” a semester-long course co-taught by Sheila Burke and Richard Frank. I knew there would be new vocabulary […]

When I founded the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy in the mid-1980s, Hispanic America was a largely unknown and underappreciated force on the American political landscape. Some demographers were beginning to note that our growth trajectory across the nation was potentially game changing, but the vast majority of American policy makers, opinion leaders, and the […]

In May 2012, eleven students of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University visited El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as part of a Leadership Service Seminar (LSS) program sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the offices of the Academic Dean and the Dean of Students.

Maurice Lim Miller is a social innovator who, as founder and CEO of the Family Independence Initiative, enables low-income families to build security and stability. Mr. Lim Miller ran a successful community development agency in San Francisco and Oakland, California for 22 years and was honored [1] by President Clinton for his work. He also […]