Read the latest news, commentary, and analysis from the Ash Center.
Feature
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful. This article was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.
Newest
An interview with Allison Stanger
Media Release
Feature
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Megan Minoka Hill delivers land acknowledgment at 2022 Kennedy School diploma ceremony
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Joel Chastain MC/MPA 2022 is taking lessons learned from the Chickasaw Nation and Harvard Kennedy School to promote tribal economic development.
Feature
In a visit organized by the Ash Center’s Vietnam Program, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính outlined his country’s desire to remain politically and economically integrated.
Commentary
Fixating on the degree—rather than the type—of decentralization is leading us astray.
Web3 today centers around expressing transferable, financialized assets, rather than encoding social relationships of trust.
Q+A
HKS Professor Maya Sen analyzes the new balance of power on the Supreme Court and how the conservative majority aligns with the beliefs of Americans.
Video
You are invited to a virtual book talk featuring Stephen Goldsmith, Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Kate Markin Coleman, director of ias advising, LLC. Goldsmith and Markin, co-authors of “Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development.” They were joined by moderator Earl Buford, President, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL.)