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Explainer: Understanding the mid-decade redistricting push in Texas

Republicans in Texas have proposed a remapping of congressional districts that has sparked conflict with state Democrats. The move is unusual, coming mid-decade rather than after a census, which ...
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Lawrence H. Summers and Phil Gramm on Economic Policy and Inequality in America

This hybrid seminar will be a discussion between Prof. Lawrence H. Summers and Sen. Phil Gramm on economics and inequality in America. Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor, ...
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Emerging School Models: Moving from Alternative to Mainstream

Microschools, classical schools, new forms of homeschooling, and other emerging school models are moving into the mainstream. But who are they serving? How much potential do they have to truly ...
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Emerging School Models: Scaling for Success

Innovative school models are making significant strides across the American educational landscape. New micro schools, charter schools, private school models, career and technical education programs, ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers

November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

2019, Paper, "As sustainability issues, also labelled environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, become financially material, companies, investors and regulators are designing strategies and ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell

March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

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 ...
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Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

A healthy democracy requires a deliberative public sphere—an informal space for citizens to gain information and communicate with one another in order to detect problems, bring them to public view, ...
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Joseph Nye, Harvard professor, developer of “soft power” theory, and an architect of modern international relations, dies at 88

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, and ...
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Understanding Texas’ energy grid failure

Record cold temperatures plunged Texas into a power crisis last week, with millions in the state losing power. The failure demonstrates the vulnerability of power grids to shifting weather patterns ...
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Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What does that mean for America?

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a 6-3 vote. Almost half a century ago, the Roe v. Wade ruling was the basis for establishing a constitutional right to ...