Politics can be polarizing. Liberals versus conservatives, millennials versus traditionalists, idealists versus pragmatists – politics creates disagreements and often divisions between Americans. We have now come to expect the head-to-head clashes between ...

This summer I read journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. I finished it with a dropped jaw. It’s hard to imagine how a book like Coates’ ended up in the hands of an 18-year-old white male, much less how it elicited the response it did. To ...

I left architect Frank Gehry’s conversation in the JFK Jr. Forum struck less by his spectacularly creative and forward thinking buildings and more by the man behind them. His character outshone his artistic genius and professional success. During my first ...

Young Americans are turning from TV to social media as the main sources of entertainment and news. In April 2015, our poll asked millennials which social platforms they use. The results may surprise you. Facebook  remains the most-used platform among mill ...

If all you have is a hammer, everything can look like a nail. With the wealth of knowledge available to us now, it doesn’t make sense to lock up expertise in one academic discipline, policy area, economic sector, political party, or nation-state. Each of ...

Gif by Al Jazeera America The  Washington Post and 1776 collaborated with the IOP on a number of questions asked of 18-29 year-old Americans, members of the "Millennial Generation," with results featured in the  Washington Post-1776 Millennial e ...

This semester, Harvard College students had the chance to meet and talk with Bob Schieffer, former CBS news correspondent and anchor of “Face the Nation.” Schieffer inspired an intelligent, meaningful discussion about a variety of topics from the process ...

IOP Polling Director John Della Volpe led the IOP’s inaugural reddit AMA about the fall IOP poll to answer questions about the results, millennials, and 2016. A reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) is a interview on the website reddit where all questions come fro ...

Swanee Hunt is the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecurer in Public Policy and was the Founding Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ambassador Hunt is also the founder and chair of The Institute for Inclusive Security. From J ...

Today the IOP announced the selection of the 2016 IOP Spring Resident and Visiting Fellows. Over the course of an academic semester, Resident Fellows interact with students, develop and lead weekly study groups and are afforded many opportunities to parti ...