Harris School of Public Policy

Poet Nikki Giovanni with a child following the 2020 George E. Kent Lecture

For Nikki Giovanni, finding purpose means ‘you cannot let the world change you’

View of Chicago neighborhood

A closer look at how neighborhoods shape public health

Politics Podcast

New podcast explores pressing policy issues through data and research—not punditry

Three people stand at the newly unveiled Doomsday Clock

Doomsday Clock closer than ever before to apocalypse

James Robinson

Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson (Ep. 37)

A leading University of Chicago scholar explains why some nations fall into poverty while others succeed.

Speaking in business context

How your speech could impact your salary

Old and new buildings

Does where you live really matter?

Dipak Bishwokarma

Obama Scholar helps his native Nepal adapt to climate change

Skyline of Berlin

Pearson Global Forum in Berlin to focus on deconstructing conflict

Berlin Wall

New book examines why liberty blossoms in some states but wilts in others