Radio Harris Podcast
1) Why Bother to Vote?
And other 2018 midterms lessons from an elections expert.
2) Radio Replay: What's in Store for Russia?
On March 23, 2016, Harris Public Policy Professor Konstantin Sonin, a prominent political scientist and commentator on Russia, examined the Russian economy's supposed downturn and the fate of the Puti...Show More
3) Winning the War on Poverty?
A new method of measuring poverty reveals a surprising truth.
4) CSI Colombia (Econ Edition)
When data reveals what dictators try to hide.
5) Crashing the Party
How 'outsider' political candidates can (and do) make it to the top. And why partisanship helps party outsiders succeed.
6) The Great Gatsby Curve
What does one of the world's great novels have to do with the way inequality works?
7) Inequality in Climate Change
Rising global temperatures mean very different things to different populations - even within the United States.
8) Behind the Tax Divide
Over the last year, Academic Director of the Center for Municipal Finance and Harris Public Policy Professor Christopher Berry has been helping the Chicago Tribune uncover injustices hidden within the...Show More
9) Chicago Homicides - Separating Fact from Fiction
In 2016, Chicago saw 762 murders. The University of Chicago Crime Lab, led by Harris' own Jens Ludwig, is using hard analysis to figure out what's really causing this violence, and what can be done ab...Show More
10) The Black-White Earnings Gap Won't Go Away
In new research, Harris Interim Dean and Professor Kerwin Charles finds that the median African-American male holds the same position relative to the median white male as his grandfather did. But why?