Governance

Bruce Schneier's comprehensive approach to safe guarding elections is detailed in eight ways of defending the public sphere and the institutions of democracy.  Taken together, they form a kill chain.

Joseph Nye writes that many partisans accused President George W. Bush of lying and pressuring the intelligence community to produce intelligence to justify a war that Bush had already chosen to prosecute. The situation was complicated, however, and to understand the problems of speaking truth to power, the myths must be cleared away.

Juliette Kayyem debunks the myth of  "lone-wolf" mass shootings.  White-supremacist terror is rooted in a pack, a community — and that community has essentially found a mission, kinship, and acceptance in today's United States.

The authors analyze data from the recent—and relatively under-reported—'Lights for  Liberty' protests and elaborate on four reasons why they are significant, especially for the 2020 election.

Recently declassified documents reveal a heated debate within the Clinton administration about how to enlarge the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to Central and Eastern Europe and when.

GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Robert Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School, on climate policy. 

Host Daniel Raimi talks with Robert Stavins, the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Daniel and Rob discuss the role that economics has played in shaping environmental policy, both in the past and today. As major proposals like the Green New Deal seem to be turning away from market-based approaches, long-advocated by most economists, Rob shares how he sees the role of environmental economics in today's environmental policy landscape.

Juliette Kayyem writes that America's immigration apparatus that needs a complete overhaul to align it with both the country's enforcement needs and values. 

The New Yorker's Dorothy Wickenden  sits down with Harvard Project Director Robert Stavins to discuss what various climate-change proposals entail—and would any of them work?

Lawrence Summers, a former student of the late Martin Feldstein, says farewell to his old mentor.