2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...
When Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope in spring 2025 and chose the name Leo XIV, I wrote that this choice signaled something consequential for the human rights movement. By invoking the name of ...
At the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, President Xi Jinping invoked “The Thucydides Trap.” The concept was coined by Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and a founding dean of ...
Today, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School announced the launch of the Fandom and Social Connection Initiative: a new lab to study the impact of ...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act through a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The Court ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which ...
This policy brief outlines a global framework for forced labor import bans (FLIBs) as a key tool to address forced labor in international supply chains. Despite legal prohibitions, forced labor ...
A new national poll finds young people under enormous economic stress, with little faith that government, elections, or national leadership will serve them. The 52nd Youth Poll run by the Institute of ...
For AI regulation to genuinely serve human rights, three conditions must be met simultaneously. First, there must be governance reach: the practical capacity to make and enforce rules over the main ...
On April 1, President Trump made his first formal public address about the United States’ military actions in Iran. His speech came over a month after the United States and Israel sent missiles and ...
The Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome (Jay) Powell has raised questions about the boundary between legitimate oversight and political interference in monetary ...
“Authoritarianism is new to many Americans,” said Steven Levitsky late last month. “And Americans have responded in a couple different ways—but we see a couple of misperceptions that concern us.” ...
We are living through a historic media transformation as consequential as the invention of the printing press, said Nancy Gibbs, the director of the Shorenstein Center and the Edward R. Murrow ...
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