When discrimination and a pandemic collide
First there was the shock of realizing that the COVID-19 pandemic would be widespread and lengthy. Now issues of race, equity, and the coronavirus are quickly coming to the fore, as data pours in show...
20 Apr 202030min
Managing crisis without resources: Developing nations brace for Coronavirus
Visit the Building State Capability program's “Public Leadership Through Crisis” blog.All PolicyCast episodes are now being recorded remotely. This episode was recorded on March 27, 2020 using SquadC...
1 Apr 202035min
When bad things happen to everybody: Crisis management in a chaotic world
Responding to a threatening virus is nothing new to HKS Senior Lecturer Juliette Kayyem, who played a major role in managing the US response to the H1N1 virus pandemic in 2009 as an official in the Ob...
25 Feb 202031min
Post-expert democracy: Why nobody trusts elites anymore
Democratic governance expert Archon Fung says that since 2016 we have entered a political dramatically different from the previous 35 years. He calls it a period of “wide aperture, low deference Democ...
3 Feb 202039min
The climate crisis was caused by economics, can economics be part of the solution?
The New York Times called it one of the worst outcomes in a quarter-century of climate negotiations. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said the international community "lost an importa...
6 Jan 202037min
Redistricting and democracy: Can we draw the line on gerrymandering?
Harvard Kennedy School Assistant Professor of Public Policy Benjamin Schneer says the drawing of electoral districts is a complex and partisan process that often results in politicians picking their v...
10 Des 201930min
The precarious fate of the African Century
A short decade from now, Africa will have the youngest workforce in an aging world and the potential to become a spectacular economic success story. Or it could become home to the overwhelming majorit...
25 Nov 201932min
Mightier than the sword: The unexpected effectiveness of nonviolent resistance
Activists from around the world reach out to Harvard Kennedy School Professor Erica Chenoweth on an almost daily basis. And they mostly ask the same question: How can we fight authoritarianism — and t...
12 Nov 201942min
