PolicyCast

PolicyCast

Harvard Kennedy School

PolicyCast explores research-based policy solutions to the big problems and issues we're facing in our society and our world. Host Ralph Ranalli talks with leading Harvard University academics and researchers, visiting scholars, dignitaries, and world leaders. PolicyCast is produced at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


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HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 4 April 2017 English

HKS Professor David Keith describes both the promise and peril involved with using geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of climate change. Solar radiation management (SRM) could conceivably cool the earth …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 22 March 2017 English

Former Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel, who recently stepped down as U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, emphasizes the value of the State Department’s public diplomacy …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 15 March 2017 English

Josh Earnest, former White House Press Secretary during the Obama administration, offers his assessment of the Trump administration’s handling of the press, and gives a behind the scenes look at …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 8 March 2017 English

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 …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 2 March 2017 English

Mary Graham, Co-Director of the Transparency Policy Project at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center, discusses her book _Presidents’ Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power,_ which traces the evolution …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 15 February 2017 English

Gil Kerlikowske, the recently retired commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and current Institute of Politics fellow, discusses the breakdowns in the rollout of the Trump administration’s executive order …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 13 February 2017 English

HKS Professor Matthew Bunn, co-principal investigator for the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom, explains how the US nuclear arsenal is managed, what the outgoing Obama administration’s $1 trillion …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 1 February 2017 English

HKS Professor Kathryn Sikkink shows how human rights efforts over the last century have largely succeeded in improving the living conditions for the vast majority of the world, and that …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 18 January 2017 English

Three faculty members discuss the history of presidential leadership, how Donald Trump’s business experience will translate to the federal government, and how his relationship with a republican congress could play …


HKS: Harvard Kennedy School · 11 January 2017 English

Three HKS faculty members discuss the broad economic challenges facing President Donald Trump as he takes office, including the cumulative effects of decades of wage stagnation, rising healthcare costs, and …