Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine is unfolding into the autocrat’s most aggressive move to extend his reach. Beyond Putin’s Russia, authoritarian regimes are on the rise globally—a ...

The big tech companies, and the upstarts like OpenAI, are making massive capital expenditure investments in AI infrastructure in the U.S. And, most of these physical investments are happening outside ...

Bureaucracy is ubiquitous—and not exactly beloved. So why do we have bureaucracy? And how can we improve it so that governments and organizations can be more responsive to the people they serve rather ...

Every student’s path to Harvard Kennedy School is unique. What our alumni go on to do after graduating is equally varied. We asked several of our alumni to tell us about their experiences before, ...

Since taking office, President Trump has issued tariff increases on imports to over 90 countries. While some of these increases have never materialized, some have resulted in new trade agreements.

The Executive Session on Community Corrections released a new paper, entitled Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes. The authors find that probation has often not ...

A little-used federal law is getting quite a bit of attention in the Trump administration. The Insurrection Act, first enacted in 1807, allows the president to deploy the United States military and ...

When truth is defined as trustworthy information that people use to make important decisions about their lives, it is arguably as fundamental to human existence as air, water, food, and shelter. Yet, ...

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2024–2025 Racial Justice Fellows and 2024–2025 Carr Center Fellows. Coming to the Center with incredibly diverse backgrounds and ...

The U.S. government shutdown is in its third week as funding bills have failed to garner the necessary votes from both Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government. At the center of this ...

Through a series of executive orders, the Trump administration has halted or eliminated research funding for a wide swath of programs affecting the environment and weather, health and biomedicine, ...

The U.S. government shut down on October 1 as Republican and Democratic funding bills failed to reach the necessary number of votes in the Senate and efforts to prevent a shutdown failed. Government ...