HKS scholar analyzes the firearms market in the U.S. to understand whether regulation can balance the importance of guns to Americans with public health and safety

“I’ve learned I knew nothing about grief. I’ve experienced death, but I knew nothing about actually grieving, crying.” —CNN's @andersoncooper

‘Sudanese Lives Matter’: A recent @HarvardIOP Forum calls attention to Sudan's descent into a humanitarian catastrophe

Transportation expert Samantha Silverberg MPP 2012 says cost and cumbersome processes are impeding American infrastructure projects

Launched in 2018 by HKS students and run by the @TaubmanCenter, Transition Term is a nonpartisan program that matches newly elected leaders with teams of HKS students

“This was a homegrown disaster, the consequence of a horrible regime that has taken people’s freedoms away and has destroyed the economy”: @ricardo_hausman on the crisis in Venezuela and how the country can achieve a peaceful democratic transition

We team up with communities to help them with their most pressing problems, from improving education systems to overhauling approaches to policing to making people’s commutes more efficient. Read about our on the ground impact ⤵️

HKS's Gordon Hanson has conducted research on how global shifts have left some American regions struggling. He and HKS's Dani Rodrik are also focused on inclusive prosperity through the multidisciplinary Reimagining the Economy initiative

With autonomous vehicles technology vastly improving in a short time, HKS's Mark Fagan says the biggest obstacle is now opposition from competing industries

What makes protest powerful: HKS's @EricaChenoweth explains if at least 3.5% of people are actively involved in a resistance movement, a high proportion of the population is likely to sympathize with or support it

"I found a community that didn’t always agree but could still talk with each other & work together toward the greater good, which in Harvard’s case includes education, discovery & the development of ideas & technologies." —Eric Holcomb @HolcombForIN

.@TaubmanCenter's Samantha Silverberg explains how @ZohranKMamdani's plans to make New York’s buses fare-free could reshape mobility in the nation’s largest city, but also pose a financial burden on an already stretched public transportation agency

Research by HKS's Iris Bohnet has helped shape organizations’ fairness practices, particularly in hiring & recruitment, promotion & performance evaluation, & building leadership pipelines

Against the backdrop of a highly polarized climate, a group of HKS students recently launched the Bipartisan Caucus to bridge political divides

One of the driving forces behind USAID was its critical role in America’s “soft power”—a concept coined by HKS's Joseph Nye that reveals how countries can gain power through attraction rather than aggression

After 35 years at the U.S. Treasury Department, David Lebryk MPA 1988—currently a Hauser Leader at @HarvardCPL—reflects on what it takes to lead with character, competence, and purpose

HKS's @RobertDPutnam predicted an epidemic of loneliness decades before the current rise in social disconnection—and outlined how society can come together again

Through ripple effects that began on campus in Cambridge, the paradigm-shifting concepts produced by our community have gone on to transform our world. Here’s a few of these big ideas & how our impact has reverberated throughout history ⤵️

📊NEW TODAY: The 51st Edition of the Harvard Youth Poll surveyed 18-to-29-year-olds nationwide, who report deep economic insecurity, eroding trust in democratic institutions, and growing social fragmentation. View full results ➡️ https://t.co/ZaYs31h7fS

📽️Watch @Kennedy_School professor Sandra Susan Smith discuss President Trump’s policies on crime, policing & the deployment of the National Guard in cities like D.C, Chicago & Los Angeles. Prof. Smith explores the myths of the "crime emergency" in cities: https://t.co/7Qi7waXrZP