Social Sciences
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Frontiers...
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
by Jonathan Shaw
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Federal Fisc
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
by Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
The World’s Costliest Health Care
Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?
by David Cutler
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
The Hollowing Out
Americans diminished by “social poverty”
by Allison Pugh
Second Chances in CS50
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
by Jonathan Shaw
Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
The severe economic fallout, in context
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Lizabeth Cohen Awarded Bancroft Prize
The urban historian is honored—for the second time.
by John S. Rosenberg
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
by Lydialyle Gibson