A recent online event by the Ash Center for Democracy and Governance focused on the increasing global influence of an elite group of wealthy and powerful tech leaders—the tech oligarchy—and the ...

Four-star Admiral Bill McRaven, former commander of the U.S. Special Operations and Navy SEAL, has led a high-profile career—including facing Somali pirates, Osama Bin Laden, and his own commander in ...

A massive national survey that has regularly measured U.S. public opinion since the start of the pandemic finds that about half of American adults say they have been infected with COVID-19 at some ...

For centuries, mainland China and the island of Taiwan have had an interconnected relationship that has been both close and contentious at times. Rana Mitter, an expert on historical and contemporary ...

“I would not call the United States a fully democratic regime today.” Harvard professor Steve Levitsky did not mince words in his opening remarks on the new web-based series, The Breakdown, presented ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Nicholas Burns, who until recently served as the United States ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, will rejoin the Harvard Kennedy School faculty in April, Dean Jeremy M.

At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest ...

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Amy Edmondson, 2018, Book, "Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge ...

Cantoni, Davide, David Y Yang, Noam Yuchtman and Y Jane Zhang. 2019. Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Anti-Authoritarian Movement. Quarterly Journal of Economics 134 ...

Citation Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Paperback Edition. Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 ...

THE IDEA THAT TRANSPARENCY can make institutions more effective and provide greater accountability and better results for the public seems uncontroversial on the surface. But scholars and officials ...