Poverty is not a Culture: The weight of scarcity on American social mobility
BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY, PANGYRUS This article is being published in collaboration with Pangyrus. Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for
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Crime Square: How Advances in Criminal Justice Policy Can Improve Public Safety in New York City
BY ISAAC LARA During the 1970s and 1980s, Times Square was not the tourist mecca that it is today. The
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Successful Innovations in Juvenile Justice are Lifting Up Instead of Locking Down
BY HAYLING PRICE Last fall, I had the opportunity to invite a hero to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL).
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The Rise of a Narrative: Thomas Piketty at the Kennedy School
BY JOSH RUDOLPH The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are
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Should Cities Use Hackathons to Solve Social Problems? Lessons from America’s Datafest at Harvard
BY ALISON FLINT I first learned about hackathons when I saw an ad for an event called Datafest hosted at
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He Said, We Said: Breaking Down the State of the Union
Note: This post assesses President Obama’s State of the Union Address in 4 policy ares: K-12 Education, Higher Education, LGBTQ
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2014 State of the Union: Issue by Issue, Part 2
A Note of Explanation: For the first time, the Kennedy School Review has tapped into the policy expertise of students
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