Happy International Podcast Day! Just the time to remind you that, sometime in late October or early November, I'll be hosting a new podcast on the economics of inclusive prosperity. Stay tuned!

Dear US news organizations: You are gaslighting if your coverage of the current political situation doesn't include the "F" word. You know the one I mean.

Racism is immoral. It needs to be opposed, not capitulated to, no matter how expedient capitulation might be.

Stand up for something important today, even if it's hard.

When the quiet part is increasingly being said out loud, it's important to not just listen and pay attention, but to react accordingly.

I've been thinking a lot about the tolerance of intolerance paradox these days.

Truth matters.

We're experimenting with offering PolicyCast as a YouTube vodcast as well as our traditional audio podcast on Apple Podcasts, etc. Interested to hear what you think, either by commenting or emailing at [email protected] youtu.be/hzT2SAOnKq4?...

More than 12,000 Harvard alumni, 21 state attorneys general, and two dozen universities, including five Ivy League schools, filed or plan to file amicus briefs backing Harvard in its court battle with the Trump administration, court records showed.

We had a serious conversation about journalism, democracy, and what it means to pursue objective truth, but it was also just fun talking to Christiane Amanpour for the latest episode of PolicyCast. She's genuine without even a hint of pretension. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

We lost a giant. Joe Nye was the rarest of combinations: a visionary, an intellectual, and a mensch. So glad I got to talk to him last month.

To heck with the headlines, Harvard Kennedy School is pushing ahead doing work that matters. Professor Iris Bohnet and researcher Siri Chilazi came on #HKSPolicyCast with me and talked about their groundbreaking work on making workplaces more fair and inclusive. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

The news today is like drinking from a firehose, but some trends bear close watching—like cryptocurrencies blending with mainstream finance in potentially risky ways. Former CFTC Chair Tim Massad and HLS Professor Howell Jackson join me on the latest #PolicyCast. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

What a joy to talk to HKS Professor (and former dean) Joe Nye. He coined the phrase "soft power" to describe ways that countries influence the world other than military or economic power. (Spoiler alert: he says US soft power is declining under Trump.) My latest PolicyCast: lnkd.in/ehvP2GWp

Ambassador Wendy Sherman, who was the first woman Deputy Secretary of State and who brokered the Iran nuclear deal, sees a disturbing authoritarian through line to Trump's geopolitical realignments. An important #PolicyCast. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

What a privilege to talk to Ambassador Wendy Sherman about what's behind Trump's radical realignment of our geopolitical relationships. Since China, Iran, and North Korea have all been in her State Dept. portfolio, she knows authoritarians. Expect her PolicyCast to drop Thursday AM. #PolicyCast

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. To celebrate, let's all stick up for someone vulnerable today.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Maya Sen says U.S. courts weren't designed to check an authoritarian president. They move too slowly, and rely on the legislative branch to keep the executive in line—something this GOP Congress refuses to do. My latest PolicyCast. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

We're about solutions here at PolicyCast, so in my latest episode, I talked to Harvard Kennedy School Professor Danielle Allen and Lecturer Mark Fagan about how public policymakers can use AI to make their governments more accessible and responsive. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

Industrial policy has been making a comeback. Check out my fascinating chat with legendary Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann about how it can advance equitable prosperity and clean energy, and how Trump's tariff's could become a stumbling block. #policycast www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

There is no moral, ethical, or democratic case for unlimited wealth.

Great discussion today with HKS Professor Danielle Allen of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and HKS Lecturer Mark Fagan about how to use AI to make governance better in a way that uplifts people and supports democracy. Expect the episode to drop next week! #policycast

Oligarchs aren't new. A 2014 Princeton study found that the US was a functional oligarchy, and that individuals had a "near-zero" ability to affect policy. Fast forward to Trump-Musk—will America finally confront its plutocracy problem? My latest PolicyCast. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

@digitdan.bsky.social Trump's America is in retreat from global leadership on everything from clean energy to public health. In my latest PolicyCast, outgoing Belgian PM Alexander De Croo says Europe can step up—but first must get its economic house in order. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

Why do colleges list loans as "aid" in financial aid notifications? It's a "cost," not aid. A $5,000 loan to pay for tuition or housing turns the cost of that tuition or housing into $6,325. I fail to see how that is "aid." #studentloansareascam

Honored to have Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo as my guest on PolicyCast yesterday (episode goes live Wednesday). We talked about the Europe and the vital global role it will play now that the Trump administration has begun dismantling climate, public health, and other important programs.

Never give up fighting for the planet and our childrens' future. Here are some ways to keep famine from being the future of food (my latest #PolicyCast). www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

On my latest episode of PolicyCast, new Harvard Kennedy School Dean Jeremy Weinstein and I talked about his views on HKS and its place in the world. We also explored how his life experiences stoked his desire to find solutions for complex societal problems. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

The best, most human, response to the murder of a billionaire healthcare CEO is not to justify the violence that killed him, but to honestly point out that causing deaths by denying people adequate coverage in the name of making enormous sums of money is also a form of violence—and to oppose both.

Happy Universal Human Rights Month! #humanrights

It seems like overnight we went from gambling being in the shadows or in Connecticut to it being omnipresent. But it's not just here—it's a global phenomenon with huge repercussions. HKS Professor Malcolm Sparrow and I talked it through it on my latest PolicyCast. www.hks.harvard.edu/policycast

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