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Stories from HKS
A generation later, revisiting the debate on nuclear weapons ethics
HKS Professor Joseph Nye reflects on how nuclear ethics have shifted since the Cold War—and what hasn’t changed.
If you don’t have multiracial democracy, you don’t have democracy at all
HKS professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Archon Fung say America’s refusal to come to grips with the role race has played in the formation of our democracy has undermined progress toward political equality.
Ban Ki-moon urges the HKS Class of 2023 to “fix what my generation failed to fix”
Echoing Kennedy, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon MC/MPA 1984 urges HKS graduates to tackle climate change, lead with compassion.
Students put scholarship and policy expertise at the service of advocacy as they help seek justice in modern-day lynchings.
Professor Cornell William Brooks sends students to Mississippi to assist the JULIAN civil rights group and experience justice in real time.
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