Harvard Kennedy School international trade expert Robert Lawrence discusses what higher tariffs will mean for the United States and the world. Roger Porter, a Harvard Kennedy School expert on ...

In financial services, Wilmot worked with private equity funds, financial institutions and infrastructure groups at the International Finance Corporation. He was also Global Project Manager to CEO ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s first month included a slew of actions and statements that have postulated new legal theories and challenged existing norms. Through a flurry of executive orders, the White ...

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential ...

Since the colonial era, when Congo was under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium, foreign powers have been not only pillaging natural resources from the Free State of Congo (today known as ...

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, and ...

George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers was followed not only by global protests for racial justice but also by the promise of reforms meant to curtail anti-Black law enforcement patterns ...

One of the most surprising statistics from the 2024 presidential election was the surge of support President Trump received from Gen Z voters. While these voters, born between 1997 and 2012, turned ...

Harvard Kennedy School announces a new scholarship program to educate military veterans and mid-career public servants. The American Service Fellowship, fully funding a one-year master’s degree for at ...

THE IDEA that the experimental mindset is not just limited to the natural sciences animates a lot of work at Harvard Kennedy School. Several programs at HKS put inquiry, investigation, and real-world ...

In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece ...