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Why is the war in Iran so expensive?

How much does the war in Iran cost? The war costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one ...
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How Armed Conflict Devastates Women’s and Children’s Health Globally: CID Faculty Research Insights

How does armed conflict affect the health of women and children, and what are the long-term public health consequences in conflict zones? Armed conflict imposes a profound and multifaceted burden on ...
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Research finds that more predictable worker scheduling improves health and well-being

Researchers have found that a Seattle ordinance requiring more notice in scheduling for hourly workers resulted in more predictable shifts, and that this increased stability led to improvements in ...
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Are we officially at war with Iran?

On April 1, President Trump made his first formal public address about the United States’ military actions in Iran. His speech came over a month after the United States and Israel sent missiles and ...
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Social capital: Predicting an epidemic of loneliness—and prescribing the solution

IN 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness an epidemic. In an advisory on the issue, he wrote, “Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and ...
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. In The Three Trillion Dollar War, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J.
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HKS on the Road

View our past HKS on the Road event photos in the caption links. 79 John F. Kennedy Street ...
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Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots army. Unlike many ...
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The Geopolitics of Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism represents a new form of capitalism that converts human behavior into data for tracking, analysis, and monetization. Yet this framing obscures the deeper architecture that ...
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Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...
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Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616.1 (March 2008): 94-109.
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Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States

Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on ...