April 13, 2016 — A US News article by Marilyn Thompson, current Joan Shorenstein Fellow and deputy editor at Politico, and Andrew Levine, HKS student, analyzes how Donald Trump has “created his own news cycle” to dominate the airwaves – receiving 54 percent of TV media mentions of GOP candidates. Read more.

April 11, 2016 — Dan Kennedy, current Joan Shorenstein Fellow and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, weighs in on The Boston Globe’s parody front page, which envisioned a Donald Trump presidency. Read more at WGBH News.

April 8, 2016 — James Carroll, author and spring 1997 fellow, writes that “for years, priests have been quietly defying the Vatican on family issues. Now Pope Francis has brought them out of the shadows.” Read more in The New Yorker.

April 8, 2016 — Diane McWhorter, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center in 2014 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores the questions raised by Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. “Now more than five decades after Harper Lee first awakened so many (white) people to their moral potential, we still need to be told that black

April 6, 2016 — BBC reporter and current Joan Shorenstein Fellow Joanna Jolly discusses her research into the aftermath of the infamous Delhi gang rape in 2012. She describes the various ways in which news outlets covered the story and how they influenced Indian society’s response. Listen on Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast.

March 31, 2016 — Diane Francis, editor at large for the National Post in Canada and fall 2005 fellow, chronicles the reasons for Trump’s “abysmal polling results among women.” Read more in The Guardian.

March 29, 2016 — Walter Shapiro, Roll Call columnist and spring 2005 fellow, argues that Ted Cruz and John Kasich “do not have to forge a binding agreement. They merely should pursue their own self-interest in a way that does not jeopardize their mutual need to stop Trump from reaching a 1,237-delegate majority.” Read more on

March 28, 2016 — Julia Baird, author, broadcaster and spring 2005 fellow, analyzes terrorism-related deaths in Western countries and in other parts of the world, in the wake of the Lahore, Pakistan terrorist attack on March 27. She argues that although the majority of these deaths take place outside of Western countries, they receive little