As programs targeting executive function become more widespread in the United States, the Boston Globe gives a word of caution on EF as a pancea and describes the research still yet to be done.

Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Frances Kamm delivered the keynote address to the Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (NUSTEP) on May 22, 2015. NUSTEP hosts an annual spring conference in moral and political philosophy addressing some of the most difficult and important questions of moral and political philosophy.  Kamm's address focused on the topic of torture.

Kamm is the third member of our department to be invited by NUSTEP to deliver a keynote address, joining professors Scanlon (2012) and Korsgaard (2010)

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[Nature ]...It is far from the top-down Kyoto Protocol system — favoured by the EU — that laid down emissions reduction targets for each country. Yet the international legal regime remains important, even if pledges are confined to national law, because it can set the rules for review. “You need a significant review system that puts the spotlight on leaders and laggards — and imposes a political cost on the latter,” says Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School... Read more about Getting a Fair Deal

Fadumo Dayib, current Mason Fellow in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and 2016 Somalian presidential candidate, discusses her early childhood experiences in Kenya, life growing up in Finland, and her return to Somalia to work for the United Nations, in a recent article in the Harvard Gazette. From Somalia, Dayib's work with the UN took her to Nairobi, Fiji, and Liberia where she worked in health care and HIV prevention, until beginning a Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki in 2013. In...