AI can make governing better instead of worse. Yes, you heard that right.
Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan say that when tested, thoughtfully deployed, and regulated AI actually can help governments serve citizens better. Sure, there is no shortage of horror stories these days...
12 Mar 202541min
Ricardo Hausmann on the rise of industrial policy, green growth, and Trump’s tariffs
For market purists, any mention of the term industrial policy used to evoke visions of heavy-handed Soviet-style central planning, or the stifling state-centric protectionism employed by Latin America...
5 Mar 202558min
Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. confronts its plutocracy problem?
Ten years ago, political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern took an extraordinary data set compiled by Gilens and a small army of researchers and set out to determ...
13 Feb 202546min
What the EU must do to compete—and become the leader the world needs
Alexander De Croo became Belgium’s prime minister in October of 2020. It’s a relatively small country, with about 12 million inhabitants—slightly less than the city of Los Angeles—but it’s very much ...
7 Feb 202535min
The policy changes needed now to avoid a climate-driven global food crisis
The warning lights are blinking for the world’s food supply. At least that’s what 150 Nobel Prize and World Food Prize laureates said in a recently-published open letter calling for a “moonshot” urgen...
24 Jan 202539min
From insight to impact: Dean Jeremy Weinstein wants the Kennedy School to embrace and solve complex public problems
Jeremy Weinstein became the newest dean in the 88-year history of the Harvard Kennedy School this past June, arriving from Stanford University, where he was an award-winning scholar and the founding f...
8 Jan 202556min
Legalized gambling is exploding globally. What policies can limit its harms?
Turbocharged by the internet and mobile technology, legalized gambling has exploded across the globe, leaving behind ruined lives, broken families and financial hardships, and should now be classified...
21 Nov 202442min
How emotion science could help solve the leading cause of preventable death
The World Health Organization says smoking is the leading cause of global preventable death, killing up to 8 million people prematurely every year—far more than die in wars and conflicts. Yet the emot...
7 Nov 202443min
