When discussing the importance of the press in keeping the government in check, Thomas Jefferson stated that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latt ...

Women in the developing world face tremendous health challenges, including poor nutrition, early and poorly spaced pregnancies, and high maternal mortality. In addition, they lack access to sexual-and reproductive-rights, and they face high levels of HIV/ ...

Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times will moderate an analysis on the state of Presidential investigations, the Mueller Report and the media’s coverage with Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent of New York Times, IOP Reside ...

Road to 2092: Save Social Security culminates the semester with an innovation challenge led by the Institute’s Visiting Fellows Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Gary Cohn Cambridge, MA – Today, the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School announced an innov ...

  At this point in 2016 cycle, Sanders polled at 2% in youth poll, he now leads field with 31%, with Biden at 20%, and Beto O’Rourke at 10% Poll finds gender, education, ethnicity, and race create sharp divides in support for Biden, Sanders, and O’Rourke ...

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2019 2:00-3:00 PM BELFER 400, LAND HALL RSVP Moderated by: Eric P. Lesser, Massachusetts State Senator Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics & the Center for Public Leadership. This event is free and open to the public. Seating i ...

In recent decades, the form and rate of progress have become increasingly regionalized. How do urban economies differ from their rural conterparts? What are the monetary, cultural, and electoral implications of economic divisions? Join Senator Heitkamp an ...

The remarkable victories by female candidates last year came just two years after the defeat of the first female nominee for president. What happened to cause such a shift? In 2018, a record 117 women were elected to Congress– including the first Muslim w ...

How are new generations of Americans engaging in politics? Is the new economy conducive to political engagement? Do young Americans realize how much is at stake for them with the growing national debt, the environmental “debt,” the student debt crisis, an ...

When there is an ongoing investigation of the president, what is the role of an investigative journalist? How does a journalist investigate the story? We’ll examine the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the underlying conduct. How do you protect you ...