Featured Stories
More Responsibility is Not Equivalent to Having More Stress
Dr. Jennifer Lerner, Thornton F. Bradshaw Professorship of Public Policy, Management, and Decision Science at the Harvard Kennedy School, shares findings around the real causes of workplace stress from her Harvard program, Leadership Decision Making.
“There is no textbook, and there are no old-timers” when it comes to AI governance
Featuring Stephen Casper
Does the top of the ticket influence down-ballot races?
Featuring Benjamin Schneer
“There is no textbook, and there are no old-timers” when it comes to AI governance
Featuring Stephen Casper
Does the top of the ticket influence down-ballot races?
Featuring Benjamin Schneer
Community Stories
HKS students are developing their skills and making an impact, both inside the classroom and beyond.
A Foreign Service Officer’s opportunity to recalibrate—and then get back to service
American Service Fellow Siena Fleischer MC/MPA 2027 spent 15 years as a Foreign Service Officer at USAID. Now at HKS, she is recalibrating and then getting back to service.
A police chief explores innovative ways to make his community a better place to live
American Service Fellow Patrick Daley MC/MPA 2027 hopes to take what he learns at HKS back to Norwich, Connecticut, where he serves as chief of police.
Bigger benefits for kindergarten’s oldest boys uncovered
Research from PhD in Public Policy candidate Matt Jacob shows that the oldest boys in a class of schoolchildren go on to build 11 percent larger social networks in high school than the youngest boys.
In the News
A selection of what our faculty members and experts are saying in the media.
The cost of the Iran war is mounting. Here’s the latest tally.
Linda Bilmes
Washington Post
Trump Blames America First
Juliette Kayyem
The Atlantic
Why the United States Keeps Losing Wars
Stephen Walt
Foreign Policy
America’s Cosmic Bet on AI
Graham Allison
Foreign Policy
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Ideas from Around HKS
Stories and news from HKS research centers.
Self-Evident Truths: The 250-Year Pursuit of Human Rights in the United States of America
Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
Good, Responsive Services Start With the Resident
Data-Smart City Solutions
The Past, Present, and Future of Democracy—A Summer Reading List from the Allen Lab
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
The Future of Aid: How Development Cooperation Is Adapting to a More Contested World
Center for International Development
Announcements
Press releases and messages to the community.
Government Performance Lab announces new State Housing Production Accelerator to help local communities meet state housing production goals
The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) announced the launch of a new program to build durable state capacity to help local governments meet ambitious housing goals.
By Nicole Morell, Director of Communications | Taubman Center for State and Local Government
HKS Magazine
Disagreement is everywhere. Leading through it is a skill.
The spring 2026 issue of Harvard Kennedy School Magazine highlights how HKS alumni and faculty are putting that skill into practice—bridging divides, navigating high-stakes decisions, and modeling more productive debate in the moments that matter most.