Wendy Sherman joins the IOP Fall Resident Fellows after serving as the lead US negotiator with Iran as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. We chatted with Wendy before her arrival about starting her career in social work, the future of politic ...

Before the packed forum “The Challenge of Inclusion,” I had the incredible privilege to interview former Harvard University President Larry Summers about income inequality. We discussed the relationship between inclusive economic growth and other pressing ...

What doesn’t this guy do? A quick Google search reveals that Noam Chomsky is not only one of the deepest thinkers of our time, but also one of the most versatile. Chomsky was a young political activist before he had even heard of the study of linguistics. ...

This week the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced plans to release 6,000 convicted drug offenders early. It is the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners. The action goes along with the Justice Department's instructions to prosecutors to ...

A photo posted by JFK Jr Forum IOP (@jfkjrforum) on Oct 6, 2015 at 3:12pm PDT If you’re reading this now, you probably know people very passionate about the Iran nuclear deal, both for and against it. I sure do. On October 6, I had the privilege to sit do ...

“I think so far it’s been Donald Trump which has been pretty obvious. How long that continues we don’t know, but I think... Posted by John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on  Thursday, October 8, 2015 Social media is hard. That’s the perspective most political candi ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement this morning that the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet – ahead of 273 formidable candidates including Pope Francis and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel – would ha ...

"We must make sure that girls go to school. Investing in education is very, very critical and very sought out." @DrJoyceBanda #BandaIOP — JFK Jr. Forum (@JFKJrForum) October 13, 2015 Dr. Joyce Banda, former president of Malawi (2012-2014), joine ...

Despite concerns of a difficult job market, our April 2015 Harvard Public Opinion Poll found that 41 percent of millennials believe they will be better off than their parents. This was a slight increase from our 2013 poll, which found that 39 percent of A ...

Mayor Lovely Warren is the mayor of Rochester, New York and participated in the IOP's program for newly elected mayors in 2013. We asked her about her vision for the future of politics and what it means for the citizens of Rochester. "The future ...