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The 3.5% rule: Understanding what makes protest powerful

MOVEMENTS MATTER. In 1980, ship workers in the Polish city of Gdańsk went on strike, demonstrating for independent unions, better conditions, and political reforms. Poland, which had been under Soviet ...
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Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity ...
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Carr-Ryan Center Fellowship

The Carr-Ryan Center welcomes applications from individuals seeking to affiliate for a year as Carr-Ryan Center Fellows. Fellows can focus on research and writing, auditing classes, meeting faculty ...
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Toward a New Professionalism in Policing

While community policing represented a great change in how police officers did their jobs, it is now time for a new model for the 21st century - a "New Professionalism". The authors propose a ...
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Mid-Career Master in Public Administration

The Mid-Career Master in Public Administration Program empowers experienced professionals to make a greater impact in the world. You know the skills you need to advance your career. With the ...
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The Rise and Fall of American Hegemony From Wilson to Trump

A century ago, Woodrow Wilson changed America's place in the world when he sent two million men to fight in Europe, but America withdrew into isolationism in the 1930s. After the Second World War, ...
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Is AI a Boom or a Bubble?

October 16, 2025, Opinion: "Nvidia’s $100 billion commitment to OpenAI—and OpenAI’s reciprocal chip purchases—signal an AI arms race accelerating at breakneck speed. How can leaders make sense of this ...
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Is The AI Bubble Bursting? Lessons From The Dot-Com Era

August 21, 2025, Opinion: "One should be just as cautious about predicting the imminent burst of an AI bubble as skeptical of the exaggerated hype currently surrounding artificial intelligence. There ...
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Find an Executive Education Program

Whether you complete a program on our historic Cambridge campus or through the flexibility of an online offering, your immersive learning experience at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education will ...
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How do Americans feel about President Trump’s immigration policy?

Baum, M. A., Qu, H., Shair, B., Lazer, D., Ognyanova, K., Druckman, J. N., Perlis, R. H., & Santillana, M. (2026, March). The civic health and institutions project: A ...
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Daily AI use is associated with depressive symptoms

How is AI use connected with depression? Since Chat GPT 3.5 emerged in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has become a source of fascination and fear for the public. As more people began to ...
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HKS 2036

HKS 2036 is our vision for the future of Harvard Kennedy School — and the path to our second century. Ninety years ago, HKS was founded with a simple mandate: to train leaders who could solve the ...