Harvard Gazette | Featuring interviews with Bart Bonikowski, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Michèle Lamont,  Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies.

Politico | By Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur. "In the tenous relationship between Republican leaders and historically black schools, this is the way it's been for a long time," write Johnson and Rigueur. "Politics makes for strange bedfellows—as is undoubtedly true of Trump and Talladega—but the blend of political expediency and areas of ideological overlap have proved a strong enough elixir to bring the two together and sustain a relationship over time."

Leah Wright Rigueur is an assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Theodore R. Johnson is an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Incoming WGS Assistant Professor Durba Mitra is featured in an article in The Harvard Crimson.... Read more about Durba Mitra Featured in The Crimson

Three months after Donald Trump's stunning victory in the 2016 presidential election, many think-tank people in Washington are still in disbelief, while others are grappling with a stream of Trump's impromptu pronouncements of his gut feelings. Will Trump do away with the status quo in many fronts with no regard to history or conventions at all? Can Trump really deliver his campaign promises, such as “reverse the U.S. trade deficit and bring back jobs?”... Read more about Critical Issues Confronting China Summary – China and the United States After Trump: View from Washington