Thomas L. Friedman is the New York Times foreign affairs Opinion columnist. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in ...

Professor Emeritus Jim Jernberg at the Humphrey School's Public Leadership Awards in 2023. Photo: Bruce Silcox James Jernberg, professor emeritus at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs who died ...

Peter Calow is a professor in the Humphrey School's Science, Technology, and the Environment Area. He has held faculty positions in the United States, Denmark, and Britain. In addition, Professor ...

Across Minnesota, communities are grappling with the growing presence of federal law enforcement and the questions it raises about civil liberties, human rights, and accountability. As enforcement ...

Tiantian (Vicky) Tang is a Ph.D. student, specializing in Child and Family Policy, with a focus on children’s health, nutrition, and welfare. Her research examines how social policies and program ...

A new report conducted by the Humphrey School highlights wide disparities in poverty rates in Minnesota based on racial/ethnic background, age, and geography. Photo: USDA The Humphrey School of Public ...

Kalvin Moschkau (second from right) poses with a group of Humphrey School students and faculty at the Genghis Khan monument in Mongolia in 2022. Photos courtesy Kalvin Moschkau Humphrey School alumnus ...

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe delivered a virtual presentation on the climate crisis as part of the Swain Climate Policy Series on April 12, 2022. Noted environmental scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

A new study from the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy shows the pandemic has exacerbated poor working conditions for low-wage health care workers. As a result, many have decided to leave the ...

Humphrey School researchers Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and Margaret Grieve in Colombia, when they began their research into the country's system of addressing intimate partner violence. Colombia enacted ...

Henriët Hendriks is the new director of the Future Services Institute (FSI), following the departures of the Institute’s co-founders—Professor Jodi Sandfort, who left to become dean of the University ...

Something as simple as an unpaid parking ticket can lead someone to rack up hundreds of dollars in fines and fees, in what Professor Joe Soss calls the 'financialization' of the criminal justice ...