Near New Year’s Eve, the urge to prognosticate is harder for a columnist to resist than a glass of champagne. For politics, I look to the…
In a Christmas gift on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. The “evil empire,” as Ronald Reagan rightly called it, was erased from…
Cohort Change and Racial Differences in Educational and Income Mobility. Bruce Western, December 22, 2011, Paper. “Policy reforms and…
Please see HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-046 for the latest version of "The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change…
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $90 billion in strategic clean energy investments intended to promote job…
The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam. I supported the…
The Harvard Negotiation Project annually presents a “Great Negotiator Award’’ to an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary…
While Americans have been welcoming the “end” of the war in Iraq over the past few days, a political crisis of serious proportions has been…
The famine in the Horn of Africa reinforced the image of a continent struggling to feed itself. Behind these images of seeming despair,…
Governor Patrick visited Chile this month in an attempt to enhance the state’s collaborations with Latin America in education, clean energy…