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Insight from Mohd Daud Mat Din, Senior Fellow, Bait Al Amanah, Malaysia. Edward S. Mason Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Practitioner Insight: Mohd Daud Mat Din, Senior Fellow, Bait Al Amanah, Malaysia. Edward S. Mason Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School (*These are his personal views and not representative of the ministries he has worked with.) Q: What is your current role and...
Memo Review - Environmental Protection Agency Memo - High lead levels in drinking water in Flint, MI
One of the catalysts of the nationwide outrage around the Flint water crisis in Michigan was a memo written by Miguel Del Toral, an EPA regulations manager in Chicago. A local Flint resident contacted her regional EPA office and connected with Del Toral...
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration
New York Times Dec. 7, 2025 By Christopher Flavelle Christopher Flavelle interviewed more than 30 former Biden administration officials who worked on immigration and border policy, as well as members of Congress, state and local officials, lawyers and...
Memo Review - International Policy Advice for the World Bank, November 2020
Click to view memo being reviewed: Memorandum on International Policy Advice for the World Bank, To: The President of the World Bank, From: Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg, November 2020 Overall, Goldberg presents a persuasive advisory memorandum by...
Memo Review of President Reagan's memo to Domestic Policy Council Members, 06/25/1987
Memo being reviewed - Memo from President Ronald Reagan to Domestic Policy Council Members, 06/25/1987 (PDF) In 1987, President Ronald Reagan wrote a memo to the Domestic Policy Council to provide direction on protecting the ozone layer ahead of...
Memo Review of President Truman's Assistant, David Lloyd. Summary outline of discussion of long-term international problems for January 1950
Memo being reviewed: Summary Outline of Discussion of Long-Term International Problems for January 1950, by David Lloyd This review examines a memo by President Harry Truman’s assistant David Lloyd, who is providing policy options for foreign investment...
U.S.A.I.D Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
(Read the Memo Here) The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: up to 18...
Review of "Notes for Meeting with Dr. King on March 5th"
Memo reviewd by: Sasha Dierauf, MPAID, Nitin Ranjan, MPP, Lucas Schmuck, MPP, and Franklin Chen, MPP President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. meet in the White House Cabinet Room on March 18, 1966.Yoichi Okamoto/White House) The...
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times Mark Bowden Scott Peterson/Liaison, via Getty Images The battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans. U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support a U...
"Closure of ICE Detention Facilities," a memo to the Secretary of Homeland Security from members of the ACLU, 09/06/23
Memo reviewed by: Veronica Diaz, HKS MPA/ID, Paul Nolan, HKS MPP, Sima Thakkar MPA/MC, and Aleena Ali, MPP The memo reviewed, "Closure of ICE Detention Facilities," is a memo from the ACLU to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, urging him...
Memo from the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, "Next Steps on Suicide Prevention in the Military," 03/16/2023
Memo reviewed by, Guido Torres, HKS NSF, Manual Ortiz-Senior, HKS MPA/MC, and Shivani Gupta, HKS MPA/ID The memo titled ‘Next Steps on Suicide Prevention’ serves to address the critical concern of suicides within the Department of Defense. The memo...
From George to Barack: A Look at Secret Bush Memos to the Obama Team, New York Times
WHITE HOUSE MEMO From George to Barack: A Look at Secret Bush Memos to the Obama Team Newly declassified memos offer a window into how the world appeared as the Bush administration was winding down. By Peter Baker WASHINGTON — The world was a volatile...
