Designing Smarter Policy
HKS Professor Asim Khwaja, Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design program, explains the benefits of bringing academics into the field to develop policy in collaboration with practitioners.
17 Dec 201421min
Is Transparency Bad for Politics?
Professor Michael Ignatieff of the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy makes the case that increased transparency in government makes it harder for politicians to find compromise ...
10 Dec 201416min
Ensuring Electoral Integrity around the Globe
HKS Lecturer Pippa Norris discusses her work on the Electoral Integrity Project, which assesses the veracity of elections around the globe and gives policy recommendations on how to ensure free and fa...
3 Dec 201414min
Is it Civil Rights or Human Rights?
HKS Associate Professor Moshik Temkin argues that the debate over civil rights in the United States, sparked by the unrest in Ferguson, MO, is actually a debate about human rights and the difference i...
25 Nov 201419min
The Criminal Injustice System
HKS Alumnus Bryan Stevenson has spent his career working to address issues of racial and wealth inequality in the United States’ justice system. He believes this inequality stems from a failure of the...
19 Nov 201415min
The Midterms, the Youth Vote and GOP Strategy
IOP Fall 2014 Fellow Kristen Soltis Anderson gives her take on the gains the GOP made in the midterm elections, how the party can better target the youth vote and what we can expect from congress over...
12 Nov 201417min
The Accidental Fall of the Berlin Wall
Professor Mary Elise Sarotte, a visiting professor at the Harvard Center for European Studies and author of “Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall,” explains how the opening of the borde...
5 Nov 201413min
Ending Veteran Homelessness
Andrew McCawley, president and CEO of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, describes the steps the organization is taking to combat homelessness among US veterans and how likely it is that th...
29 Okt 201415min
