Mayor Karen Weaver joined Christopher Robichaud for a conversation on the Flint water crisis. The honorable mayor described the conditions in which Flint, Michigan found itself when declared under a state of emergency. The conversation touched upon the ra ...

United States Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, presented the Robert McNamara Lecture on War and Peace, and spoke regarding “Science and Diplomacy for Solving Humanity’s Big Issues: Iran, HEU, and Climate Change.” He emphasized the strengths of the US-Ir ...

A Conversation with Josh Earnest Moderated by Fall 15 Resident Fellow Brent Colburn ...

Do the things that drive you and you will find a way to make an impact. — Anurima Bhargava Harvard undergrads recently sat down to talk about working in civil rights and racial justice with IOP Fellow Anurima Bhargava, former chief of the educational oppo ...

Tamir Rice. Rekia Boyd. Tyisha Miller. Walter Scott. Eric Garner. Trayvon Martin. Laquan McDonald. As the list gets longer, the scars get deeper. People call it “police brutality.” The paradox of a state apparatus endangering the citizens it is meant to p ...

Fifty years ago, the Harvard Institute of Politics was established as a living memorial to President Kennedy. This week, the IOP celebrates its first half century with a weekend-long event highlighting the past, present and future of politics and public s ...

Panelists Thomas Joscelyn, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Alberto Mora, a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, joined moderator Barbara Starr, a Pentagon Correspondent for CNN, for a discussion on th ...

Founder of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of Washington D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee joined Paul Reville, a professor of Practice of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for a conversation about the future of education policy. ...

The Forum, entitled "The Politics of Film: Between Imagination and Industry", saw Irwin Winkler, an award-winning producer and director, notable for his work on Creed  and Rocky, speak with Brandon Terry. The topics ranged from the highs and low ...

  Governing is an impracticable job performed with insufficient tools by inadequately prepared people, often in a system designed to prevent progress.  Yet it is necessary; human beings in community must have a method of decision making.  Why, after thous ...