190 How Cities are Thriving in a Populist Era
Bruce Katz explains what makes cities different from state and national governments, and why that difference has allowed them to thrive while populism and partisanship grip state and national governme...
14 Mar 201817min
189 Bringing Economics to the People
Tufts Professor Michael Klein explains how he’s using http://www.econofact.org to better inform the broader public about economics. The non-partisan publication features easily-digestible briefs on to...
7 Mar 201824min
188 New Orleans' Confederate Monuments
Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans, a Hauser Visiting Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, describes the years-long process involved with removing four confederate monuments in New Orleans, in...
28 Feb 201825min
187 Reinventing City Government
HKS Prof. Stephen Goldsmith says technology is enabling cities to radically change the way they operate, and both city workers and citizens stand to benefit. He describes how governments will shed the...
21 Feb 201823min
186 Is Social Media Good For Democracy?
Adam Conner, a spring 2018 fellow at the Institute of Politics, digs into the nuance behind the question many are asking about platforms like Facebook and Twitter, namely: are they good for democracy?
14 Feb 201826min
185 Turning a Personal Loss into Policy Action on Opioids
Admiral James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a non-resident senior fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, knows firsthand the damage inflicted by the ongoing opioid crisis. After losing his son to addictio...
7 Feb 201825min
184 Lessons Learned as a Political Prisoner in Venezuela
Francisco Marquez Lara MPP 2012 describes his experience as a political prisoner in his home country of Venezuela. He describes what drove him to pursue his political advocacy despite the inherent ris...
1 Feb 201824min
183 Stop Calling It Fake News
The Shorenstein Center’s Claire Wardle and journalist Hossein Derakhshan explain how information disorder has taken the world by storm, breaking down how it’s created, produced, and distributed, payin...
20 Des 201738min
