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 ...

April 4, 2023, Video: "Over the last two decades, India has built the world’s largest digital biometric identity and real-time payment systems. Its use of digital technology has enabled India to ...

March 13, 2024, Paper: "We use widely adopted voluntary ESG disclosure standards and leading machine learning techniques to quantify and compare the ESG content across a comprehensive sample of public ...

Massachusetts recently joined the ranks of states and other localities that have made community colleges tuition-free. David Deming, the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and HKS ...

You may not feel that you are happy, but anyone can focus on ways to get happier, says faculty member Arthur Brooks. He coauthored a book last year with media executive Oprah Winfrey, titled “Build ...

The Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome (Jay) Powell has raised questions about the boundary between legitimate oversight and political interference in monetary ...

“Authoritarianism is new to many Americans,” said Steven Levitsky late last month. “And Americans have responded in a couple different ways—but we see a couple of misperceptions that concern us.” ...

We are living through a historic media transformation as consequential as the invention of the printing press, said Nancy Gibbs, the director of the Shorenstein Center and the Edward R. Murrow ...

Concluding a two-year investigation, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab have issued a stark diagnosis of the “collapsing state capacity” in South Africa after decades of policy ...

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.

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 ...

Economists, industry leaders, and policymakers explored the current debates over industrial policy—the strategies a government takes to stimulate economic growth through tools like subsidies, tax ...