Harvard Kennedy School's Mark Shepard discusses health insurance subsidies and why they have become such a sticking point for lawmakers.

Changing geopolitics and evolving technologies are raising the danger that nuclear weapons might actually be detonated in conflict for the first time since 1945. In this webinar, Matthew Bunn, ...

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 ...

Turning around chronically underperforming schools and districts has long been an elusive goal, despite prioritization at the highest levels of government. Researchers have examined school-level ...

The House of Representatives narrowly passed a budget resolution last month that included a framework for trillions of dollars of tax cuts and government spending cuts. Over the coming months, the ...

One of the most surprising statistics from the 2024 presidential election was the surge of support President Trump received from Gen Z voters. While these voters, born between 1997 and 2012, turned ...

The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has sparked nationwide protests and raised important questions about the role of law enforcement in local communities. But what are some of ...

Before the Trump administration took office, what has become known as DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, was touted as a tool for injecting private sector efficiencies into the federal ...

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After four years of the Trump administration, how the Republican party moves forward is the topic of much debate. A conversation between Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional ...

Tracking in schools – the practice of separating students into classrooms by ability – is a hotly debated issue in the United States. Advocates for tracking claim that it helps teachers target ...

Economist and public leader Juan Jimenez MPA/ID 2010 has returned to Harvard Kennedy School as a lecturer in public policy. An expert in political economy and economic development, Jimenez served as ...