In this talk, Dr. Mbuya will explore how the World Bank views nutrition within the context of competing global health priorities. He will discuss how this critical but often overlooked issue (and others like it) can be framed to build its profile on national and international agendas.
Nkosinathi Mbuya is Senior Nutrition…
In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. He is joined in conversation by fellow scholar about housing and poverty in America, author, and activist Keeanga Yamahtta…
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which had protected the constitutional right of pregnant persons to decide whether to terminate their pregnancies. Justice Alito’s 5-4 majority opinion in Dobbs denied that it “cast doubt” on any other…
As the world grapples with how to address climate change, at the heart of the issue is justice. Globally, the nations that are projected to suffer the worst impacts of climate change are those that are least responsible for causing it and that have fewer resources to adapt. The same is true in the United States, where…
What are central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and will they revolutionize financial services? From the Nigerian eNaira to the Digital Rupee launched by the Reserve Bank of India, more than half the world's central banks are considering offering some form of digital currencies in the near future. What are the implications for…
In today’s competitive information environment, clicks are the currency of the digital media landscape. Clickbait journalism attempts to entice attention with provocative and sensational headlines, and these often include reference to polling results about the public’s shocking beliefs or ignorance. Does such survey clickbait…
In the United States, financial institutions leverage personal data for countless decisions impacting individual wellbeing, ranging from managing access to existing accounts to deciding who to offer credit and on what terms. The legitimacy, and arguably the efficacy, of those decision-making processes therefore hinges partly on…
Join HPD as we welcome Philip Taubman for a discussion of his just published biography of Princetonian George Schultz ’42, who as Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan oversaw the contentious but ultimately propitious ending of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union.
Currently a fellow at Stanford University…
Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach
Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of its weekly "Letter from Trump's Washington," as well as a CNN global affairs analyst
The inside story of the four…
