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What Louisiana v. Callais Means for the Voting Rights Act

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act through a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The Court ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which ...
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Karen Dynan on the appropriate role of fiscal policy in the fight against inflation

There’s little doubt among economists that monetary policy—adjusting financial conditions through interest rate changes and other actions—should be a key tool for reducing inflation from its current ...
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Master’s Programs

The master’s degree programs at Harvard Kennedy School are designed to equip you with the essential skills to shape public policy, champion impactful ideas, and elevate your leadership potential. If ...
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Executive Leaders and Government

Program Fee: The program fee includes tuition, housing, curricular materials and most meals. Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Public Leadership and Public Policy ...
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Regional Growth Two Years In: Is the government on track to boost UK growth by closing regional divides?

Labour’s 2024 General Election manifesto claimed the UK’s stagnant rate of economic growth over nearly two decades came from the “inability to accept that a strong economy can only be built on the ...
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Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety

As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the relationship between such reforms and crime, including and perhaps ...
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Overcoming the Organizational Barriers to AI Adoption

November 11, 2025, Opinion: "Most firms struggle to capture real value from AI not because the technology fails—but because their people, processes, and politics do. Survey data and case studies ...
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Many states are banning cellphones in schools. Is it working?

With concerns about teenagers spending too much time on their phones, educators and parents have pushed to keep them out of classrooms. Florida adopted the first U.S. school cellphone ban in May 2023.
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Explainer: Executive orders as a governing tool

American presidents have issued executive orders since George Washington was in office. Article Two of the Constitution gives the president the legal foundation to issue executive orders to provide ...
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Democracy in 2025: Harvard professors on rising authoritarianism in the United States

“Authoritarianism is new to many Americans,” said Steven Levitsky late last month. “And Americans have responded in a couple different ways—but we see a couple of misperceptions that concern us.” ...
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Want a jury to be fair, impartial, and engaged in higher-quality deliberations? Diversify the jury pool, Harvard researchers say.

The Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts was created by Sandra Susan Smith, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, faculty director of the ...
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Explainer: How the United States has approached nuclear negotiations with Iran

In recent decades, Iran’s nuclear program has been a concern for the international community, and the United States has a history of negotiation attempts to contain that program. In 2015, the Obama ...