Is blinding a possible solution to the implicit biases that exist throughout the healthcare and biomedical science fields? Christopher Robertson, a Lab affiliate and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, and former Lab Fellow Marie Newhouse examine the positives and negatives of blinding. They also discuss Robertson’s current collaborative research project on political corruption and how juror discretion affects the outcome of campaign finance cases.

In an explosive scandal, global regulators suspect the 4pm fix is quite possibly fixed. Traditionally it's the London hour when rates for currencies like the dollar are set. It's now suspected that traders colluded to rig markets for private gain. Financial journalist Gregg Fields and Professor Justin O'Brien, director of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation at the University of New South Wales in Australia, discuss the role that institutional corruption may have played.

Dr. John Ruggie—one of the 25 most influential international relations scholars in the United States and Canada (according to Foreign Policy magazine), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School professor, and the author of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights—talks with bioethicist and Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow Dr. Jennifer E. Miller about his experiences drafting and implementing the UN Guiding Principles. These principles constitute the most comprehensive and authoritative global standard in the area of business and human rights, to date.

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders affects drugs with sales in the billions of dollars. In research supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Lisa Cosgrove of UMass-Boston investigated financial ties between DSM panel members and the pharmaceutical companies that have a vested interest in finding new indications for their blockbuster drugs. In this podcast, she tells journalist Gregg Fields what she found, what it means—and why we all should care.

50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty, the number of Americans living below the poverty line remains stubbornly high. Daniel Weeks, a non-resident fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, discusses the political dimensions of persistent poverty in America and presents solutions to overcome the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of poor people in the democratic process – including the upcoming NHRebellion walk across New Hampshire for campaign finance reform, led by E.J. Safra Center Director Lawrence Lessig.

What will it take for EPA to protect people and the environment from hazardous pollutants? Closing the loopholes in the Toxic Substances Act (TSCA) would help, but industry pressure has Congress on the verge of a "reform" bill that might make things worse. Journalist Ted Gup interviews investigative reporting fellow Sheila Kaplan on institutional corruption at EPA.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind interviews Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Director Lawrence Lessig about his upcoming march across New Hampshire.

Wall Street is in for a shakeup under the newly adopted Volcker Rule. In this exclusive podcast for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard business professor emeritus Malcolm Salter and financial journalist Gregg Fields discuss what it does, what lies ahead -- and why every American should care.