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A Darkening Horizon: Nuclear Dangers Around the World with Matthew Bunn

Changing geopolitics and evolving technologies are raising the danger that nuclear weapons might actually be detonated in conflict for the first time since 1945. In this webinar, Matthew Bunn, ...
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The Great Tech Rivalry: China vs the U.S.

To mark the arrival of the 21st century, in 1999 the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine offered an Olympian preview of the decades ahead. The Academy foresaw a world in which ...
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Public Policy Summer Fellowship

The Rappaport Public Policy Summer Fellowship challenges graduate students from across Greater Boston to immerse themselves in the region's public sector through a dynamic summer internship experience ...
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three ...
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Assessing the impacts of primary and secondary legislation – a Real Options approach to rules for making rules

January 2024, Paper: "Impact assessments (IAs) of government regulatory policy proposals set out their expected costs, benefits and risks and who is likely to face those impacts. In the UK, primary ...
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People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a ...
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Total Economic Valuation of the National Park Service Lands and Programs: Results of a Survey of the American Public

This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive estimate of the total economic value of the National Parks Service. The estimate covers administered lands, waters, and historic sites as well as NPS ...
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Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment

Kane, Thomas J., Daniel F. McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas O. Staiger. Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment. Bill and Melinda ...
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“In this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when ...
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Underfunded Public Pensions in the United States: The Size of the Problem, the Obstacles to Reform and the Path Forward

Across the United States, state and local government-sponsored pension plans are in trouble. They are dangerously underfunded to the extent that their assets are unable to meet future liabilities ...
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Earned Wage Access: An Innovation in Financial Inclusion?

Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these ...
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Can There Be 'Libertarianism Without Inequality'? Some Worries about the Coherence of Left-Libertarianism.

Left-libertarian theories of justice hold that agents are self-owners and that natural resources are owned in some egalitarian manner. Unlike egalitarianism, left-libertarianism endorses full ...