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PolicyCast | Harvard Kennedy School
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The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers and decision makers.
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Turning the Women’s March into a Women's Movement | PolicyCast
How do you turn protest into policy? Three HKS experts discuss the aftermath of the historic Women’s March on Washington this past January, and explain what needs to happen next in order to translate that activism into real policy changes. Featuring HKS Assistant Professor Leah Wright Rigueur,...
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Roundtable: Trump's Foreign Policy
As Donald Trump prepares to take office, three HKS faculty members discuss the challenges he’ll face in pursuing his unique brand of politics on the world stage. Featuring former US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, former Department of Homeland Security Official Juliette Kayyem and Foreign...
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The Challenges Faced by Human Rights Organizations | PolicyCast
Sushma Raman, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights and adjunct lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, digs into the challenges facing human rights organizations on both the international and local levels and how they are rising up to meet the challenge.
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How Technology Governs Us | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Sheila Jasanoff urges us to closely consider the ways technologies have come to govern our lives, and question if unbridled technological innovation is inherently a good thing, or if it’s worth taking a step back before we make the next giant leap.
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The Very Model of a Modern Surgeon General | PolicyCast
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discusses the challenges posed by the growing crisis of opioid addiction in the United States, how to combat the over-prescription of painkillers, and the importance of eliminating the stigma that often surrounds addiction. He also discusses how his advocacy on...
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Peace Through Pragmatism | PolicyCast
Nancy Lindborg, President of the U.S. Institute of Peace, discusses the development of practical tools that empower communities around the world to avoid violent conflict before it starts, and de-escalate where violence has already erupted.
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Let's Talk Turkey | PolicyCast
Dr. Amanda Sloat, former US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs, explains the situation in Turkey, just a few months removed from a military coup attempt, as it grapples with stark internal political divisions, violent conflicts in...
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How We Regard Veterans | PolicyCast
Chuck Hagel, former US secretary of defense, discusses what motivated him to pursue military and public service, and examines how military service is regarded in modern American society. Secretary Hagel is at the Kennedy School as a joint visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics and Belfer...
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The Pain is Real: Our Emotional Reaction to Electoral Results | PolicyCast
HKS Associate Professor Todd Rogers demonstrates the drastic emotional impact electoral wins and losses have on political partisans, influencing their overall happiness even more than national tragedies. He also discusses our tendency to believe in a favorable future and introduces the concept of...
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Race in America: Looking to the Past to Understand the Present | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad makes the case that modern hot-button issues like race and policing as well as mass incarceration are fundamentally rooted in a widespread failure to fully educate Americans about their country’s racial history.
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Interconnected Challenges in Latin America | PolicyCast
Peter Quilter, a non-resident fellow at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center, details the internal state of affairs in Colombia, Venezuela, and Cuba, revealing that despite the unique nature of each country’s problems, their futures are all interconnected.
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Can US Elections Be Rigged? | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Alex Keyssar offers an historical perspective to modern worries about rigged elections, weighing the prevention of voter fraud against the risk of voter suppression.
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Difficult, Demanding, and Dangerous: The Challenges Female Journalists Face in the Middle East
Iranian journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a Fall 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, discusses the challenges she faced as a reporter in her home country, and describes the common thread that joins her experience with that of journalists, especially women, across the Middle East.…
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Telling the True Story of Human Trafficking | PolicyCast
HKS Lecturer Siddharth Kara of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy explains how his research into the tens of millions of girls around the world who have been forced into sexual slavery led him to Hollywood, where he wrote and produced the new feature film “Trafficked.” The film, based on…
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How the Press Covers the Election | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Thomas Patterson, author of an ongoing series of reports out of the Shorenstein Center on the media's coverage of the 2016 election cycle, discusses what he sees as troubling consequences of how the press approaches reporting on the campaign.
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Madeleine Albright on Immigration, the Refugee Crisis, and Youth Activism | PolicyCast
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warns against the trend of young activists attempting to achieve their aims outside the system rather than from within it; discusses the emerging relevance of non-state actors in the international system; offers her take on a proposed wall along the...
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Homeland Security’s Goldilocks Problem | PolicyCast
HKS Lecturer Juliette Kayyem, a national security expert and author of “Security Mom,” digs into the “Goldilocks” problem of security in the United States, analyzing whether the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is worth the cost and hassle to air travelers; providing historical context…
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The Air Force of the Future | PolicyCast
US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James discusses the return of the Air Force's Reserve Officer Training Corps to Harvard; how remotely piloted drones have affected the United States' modern approach to warfare; whether serious issues regarding the command and control of US nuclear weapons have...
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Leadership In Diplomacy | PolicyCast
Ambassador Kristie Kenney, Counselor of the US State Department, gives her perspective on leadership in diplomacy, drawing on her experience as US ambassador to Ecuador, Thailand and the Philippines. She discusses what traits are most important, how she assembles her staff, why she became an avid...
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One Billion Preventable Deaths | PolicyCast
Dr. Howard Koh, former Assistant Secretary for Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services and professor at both the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and the Kennedy School, counters the popular perception that the fight against tobacco has been won, stressing that every day in…
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Billionaires And Their Newspapers | PolicyCast
Northeastern Professor Dan Kennedy, a spring 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, describes the fates of three newspapers, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Orange County Register, that were bought in recent years by individuals with significant...
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Bridging The Chinese American Cultural Gap | PolicyCast
Ambassador Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American to serve as US ambassador to China, reflects on how his personal and family history influenced his approach to diplomacy, both with China and with his own constituents.
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Trumped Up Media Coverage | PolicyCast
Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times and current Harvard lecturer, discusses media coverage of both sides of the 2016 presidential campaign, relating her experiences reporting on presidential races since 1976.
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Does All Reporting on Sexual Violence Influence Culture in a Positive Way? | PolicyCast
BBC Reporter Joanna Jolly, currently a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, discusses her research into the aftermath of the infamous Delhi gang rape in 2012. She describes the various ways in which news outlets covered the story and how they influenced the Indian society’s response.
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Sustainability or Prosperity? Why Not Both? | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Bill Clark describes the rapidly growing field of sustainability science, which combines a variety of disciplines in both the hard and social sciences to find paths towards a sustainable future.
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How “Pay for Success” Allows Governments to Experiment Without Risk | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Jeffrey Liebman, Director of the Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab, explains how Pay For Success, also known as Social Impact Bonds, allow governments to test out new social programs without risking taxpayer funds if they fail.
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Balancing Cyber Security | PolicyCast
Michael Sulmeyer, director of the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project, discusses the US government’s efforts to defend against cyber threats in the context of the legal battle between the FBI and Apple over its encryption methods.
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A Primer on the Trans-Pacific Partnership | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Robert Lawrence explains what the Trans-Pacific Partnership is, how it could transform the global economy, what makes it controversial, and why its ratification has sparked a heated political discussion within both parties.
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Changing Your Environment to Overcome Your Biased Mind | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Iris Bohnet, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS, discusses some of the lessons in her new book, What Works: Gender Equality By Design. Through both academic studies and anecdotes, she explains how gender equality is often prevented by unconscious biases that…
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What Do You Do When War Comes to Town? | PolicyCast
Vera Mironova, a research fellow at the Belfer Center’s International Security Program and the Woman and Public Policy Program, explains the cascading series of choices people face when war descends on their communities. Her surveys of frontline fighters in Syria and Ukraine help paint a picture…
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Is Art a Call to Action, or a Distraction? | PolicyCast
Eve Ensler, the Tony Award-winning author of the Vagina Monologues and a veteran activist, explains how she believes art is always political, and it’s incumbent on everyone to recognize this and stand for causes they support. She discusses her efforts to create and rally the V-Day and One Billion...
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Is Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty? | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Bruce Western, Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, explains how the prison population in the United States has quintupled since the 1970s and advocates for changes to the penal code to better deal with deep-rooted social problems.
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1,000 Hits to the Head: Is Football a Public Health Issue? | PolicyCast
Chris Nowinski of the Concussion Legacy Foundation makes the case that head trauma in contact sports, and football in particular, is a serious public health issue that requires action by policymakers and parents alike.
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Public Affairs as Part of the Mix, or Icing on the Cake? | PolicyCast
IOP Fellow Brent Colburn discusses the differences between campaigning and governing, drawing on his experiences both at the pentagon and on a presidential campaign to compare and contrast. He goes on to explain how the Department of Defense integrates public affairs into its decision making, how...
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VOA: Exporting the First Amendment | PolicyCast
David Ensor, former director of Voice of America and current Fall 2015 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, explains why Voice Of America is a key instrument in the projection of US soft power and how the organization’s commitment to objective journalism, as opposed to being an...
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Finding Agreement On Climate Policy In Paris | PolicyCast
HKS Professor Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements out of the Belfer Center, explains why the COP21 in Paris is a critical step in addressing anthropogenic global climate change. He discusses the history of past climate summits and lays out both his markers for...
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The Cuba Moment | PolicyCast
Marie Sanz, former bureau chief for the AFP in Lima, Peru and a Fall 2015 Joan Shorenstein fellow at the Shorenstein Center, describes how the announcement of normalized relations between the US and Cuba took the world and the press, in particular by surprise. She explains how talks between…
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Compassion or Caution? The Migrant Crisis After Paris | PolicyCast
Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, Research Director at the Harvard FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, discusses the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe and how the recent terrorist attacks in Paris might reshape policy regarding the resettlement of Syrian refugees in both Europe and the United States.
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The Smartest Time on TV | PolicyCast
Bob Schieffer, former host of CBS News’s Face the Nation and current Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, explains the enduring popularity of the Sunday morning political talk show, offers his take on what he calls “the most different” presidential campaign in...
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The Development Of Agency | PolicyCast
HKS Adjunct Lecturer Ronald Ferguson emphasizes the importance of looking beyond standardized test results and measuring students’ sense of agency - the belief that they have the capacity to succeed - in order to address lingering achievement gaps.
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The Power of Protests, Propaganda and Religion | PolicyCast
HKS Associate Professor David Yanagizawa-Drott’s quantitative analysis of three seemingly disparate topics shows the power of protests to change policy, the power of propaganda to induce violence and the power of religion to create happiness despite reducing GDP. You can read more on Professor...
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From Selma to Harvard: Supporting the notion of public service | PolicyCast
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust discusses what drew her to the study of history; her role as a student activist in the civil rights movement in Selma; how her experience as an activist shapes her leadership now; her advice to young people who are trying to balance public service and career...
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How The UN Set The Standard For Human Rights In The Corporate World | PolicyCast
HKS Professor John Ruggie, who has twice served in senior roles at the United Nations, describes how the UN was able to leverage its convening power to create an unprecedented set of "Guiding Principles" for corporate responsibility on human rights issues. He also speaks to the growing role...
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Don't Panic: China's Just Switching Gears | PolicyCast
Peiran Wei, a 2015 China and Globalization Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and former Bloomberg reporter, describes his country as "switching gears" – in its economy, its politics, and its culture. Wei discusses attitudes towards the rising billionaire class in China, the…
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Why Hasn't Homeownership Recovered | PolicyCast
Christopher Herbert, managing director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, explains whether there’s reason for concern about the state of the US housing market, which has been beset by falling homeownership rates, rising rents, stalling incomes and demographic shifts that threaten to...
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How to Fix a Sovereign Debt Crisis | PolicyCast
The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers and decision makers.
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America: The Next Great Emerging Market | PolicyCast
Retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus, a non-resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center, explains why he believes a combination of four technological revolutions will lead to a renewed era of American power. Not just for the United States, but for Canada and Mexico, too. He details the steps he...
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The Iran Nuclear Accord: What Happens Next? | PolicyCast
Gary Samore, President Obama’s former principal advisor on arms control and nuclear proliferation who currently serves as the Director for Research at the Belfer Center, gives his take on the agreement struck between Iran and a group of world powers referred to as the P5+1 to restrict and monitor...
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A Wholesale and Retail Approach to Digital Government | PolicyCast
Nick Sinai, formerly a U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House and currently a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy fellow at the Shorenstein Center, describes in detail the effort the Obama administration has put into modernizing the federal government’s digital services, both…
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Tunisia and the Arab Spring | PolicyCast
Former Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and the Middle East Institute’s Dr. Paul Salem discuss Tunisia’s relative success in establishing a stable democracy in the wake of the Arab Spring. Jomaa, who recently delivered an address at the JFK Jr. Forum, and Salem, who lead a seminar at the…
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The Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast is an ongoing conversation on public policy, governance and global issues featuring weekly 15-20 minute discussions hosted by Matt Cadwallader with prominent thought leaders, researchers and decision makers.
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