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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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Mind Control: Past and Future

During the Cold-War-era, intelligence agencies in both the Eastern and Western blocs set up secret experiments to devise methods of mind control and brainwashing in order to gain an advantage over the ...
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Atlas 2.0 Offers Bigger, Faster Visualizations and New Datasets

Cambridge, MA - The Atlas of Economic Complexity, the dynamic, open source data visualization tool produced by Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID), now offers an enhanced design that ...
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The health insurance subsidies behind the government shutdown

Harvard Kennedy School's Mark Shepard discusses health insurance subsidies and why they have become such a sticking point for lawmakers.
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Anti-Trump protests are making headway in Trump country, new research shows

New research by Professor Erica Chenoweth’s Nonviolent Action Lab—published right before the October 18 No Kings protests across the country—shows that the 2025 protests against the Trump ...
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Explainer: Why government shutdowns keep happening in the United States

The U.S. government shut down on October 1 as Republican and Democratic funding bills failed to reach the necessary number of votes in the Senate and efforts to prevent a shutdown failed. Government ...
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On the Digital Frontline with Russia: Hybrid Warfare, Ukraine, and Lessons Learned for the West

In this publication, Technology and Human Rights Fellow Anna Romandash examines Russia’s use of hybrid warfare against Ukraine, which blended cyberattacks, disinformation, economic coercion, and ...
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How governments can move beyond bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is ubiquitous—and not exactly beloved. So why do we have bureaucracy? And how can we improve it so that governments and organizations can be more responsive to the people they serve rather ...
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Explainer: Understanding the mid-decade redistricting push in Texas

Republicans in Texas have proposed a remapping of congressional districts that has sparked conflict with state Democrats. The move is unusual, coming mid-decade rather than after a census, which ...
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Examining threats to academic freedom in America and the world

Higher education in the United States is currently under intense scrutiny from the second Trump administration. A new working paper from Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative ...
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Harvard Kennedy School launches new program to provide full scholarships for American public servants and military veterans

Cambridge, MA — Today, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is launching the American Service Fellowship — a new initiative that will provide full scholarships for at least 50 public servants and military ...
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Whose pay should be cut in economic crises? Consumers prefer firms that prioritize paying employees over CEOs - Michael Norton

October 13, 2021, Paper: "Four experiments examine the impact of a firm deciding to no longer pay salaries for executives versus employees on consumer behavior, particularly in the context of the ...