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Should race be used in determining risk for disease? Yes. And no.

Identifying risk for major illnesses such as cancers and heart disease is often predicated on variables such as age, gender, and lifestyle. Adding race and ethnicity as factors is hotly debated among ...
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Autocracy and patriarchy are surging worldwide—but women are pushing back

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine is unfolding into the autocrat’s most aggressive move to extend his reach. Beyond Putin’s Russia, authoritarian regimes are on the rise globally—a ...
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Explainer: How do tariffs work and how will they impact the American and global economy?

Over the past week, President Donald Trump announced, and then largely paused, a new tariff regime more severe than anything seen in more than a century, and certainly out of step with the United ...
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Medicare/Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act gave more Americans health insurance protection than ever before. So why do racial disparities in health care still exist?

Since the adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the drop in the uninsured rate has been important yet the disparities between Black and white Americans remain substantial, according to a new ...
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The Promise and Perils of OpenAI's Proposed AI Economic Zones, Part 1: Introduction

The big tech companies, and the upstarts like OpenAI, are making massive capital expenditure investments in AI infrastructure in the U.S. And, most of these physical investments are happening outside ...
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Pathways in Public Service: How Rika Kamijima-Tsunoda MPA 2021 made the most of her time at HKS

Every student’s path to Harvard Kennedy School is unique. What our alumni go on to do after graduating is equally varied. We asked several HKS alums to tell us about their experiences before, during, ...
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Surviving the Heat: The Impact of Climate Change on Maternal and Infant Health in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India, is grappling with a maternal and infant health crisis, one that is exacerbated by the worsening climate emergency. Rising temperatures, frequent power cuts ...
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Is China Beating the US to AI Supremacy?

Combining decades of experience advancing frontier technologies, on the one hand, and analyzing national security decisionmaking, on the other, we have been collaborating over the past year in an ...
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Adaptive Evaluation: A Complexity-Based Approach to Systematic Learning for Innovation and Scaling in Development

Nearly all challenges in international development tend to be complex because they depend on constantly evolving human behaviour, systems, and contexts, involving multiple actors, entities, and ...
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The Economic Cost of Long COVID: An Update - David Cutler

2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...
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Private Credit & Systemic Risk

June 2025, Paper: "The private credit market has rapidly expanded in recent years, becoming an established source of corporate loans to middle-market firms, a key financing tool for private equity ...
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Exports in Disguise: Trade Re-Routing During the U.S.-China Trade War

Origin-specific tariffs are a common policy tool; however, critics claim that such tariffs are often circumvented by rerouting goods through intermediary countries. This study examines whether ...