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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Red flags rise on global warming and the seas
The world’s oceans, glaciers, and ice caps are under assault by climate change. The Gazette spoke with former Obama science adviser John Holdren about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report examining the threat.
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A Platonic ideal of a news website
Adam Moss, now a fall fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, launches an eight-week workshop for students to consider the current business realities of political journalism and develop an ideal of a financially viable news site that delivers what readers want and need.
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On the road to impeachment?
Harvard faculty react to the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump by the House of Representatives and discuss what it may mean for the country.
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National parks’ economic benefits put at over $100B annually
A new economic analysis of the U.S. National Park system puts its value to Americans at more than $100 billion, a figure that dwarfs the financially strapped agency’s $2.5 billion budget and underpins a call to change how what has been called “America’s Best Idea” is financed.
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Houston, we have a solution
Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.
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Bluegrass symphony
Theresa Reno-Weber is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a former lieutenant. She deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as a sea marshal on the first U.S.C.G. cutter to circumnavigate the world. Today, she is president and CEO of Metro United Way in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Tillerson’s exit interview
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria and discussed diplomacy negotiation strategies during a closed-door talk for the American Secretaries of State project at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday.
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United front
Rye Barcott is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran living in North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a group that aims to bridge partisanship in U.S. politics by supporting veterans running for office.
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New report urges Congress to close its growing tech gap
Harvard Kennedy School researchers release report urging Congress to close its growing tech-knowledge gap.
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Humanizing global problems
Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people.
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Bond rate shift may suggest recession
An inverted bond yield curve often has been a harbinger of recession, though the odds of one are still only 1 in 3 for this year, Harvard analyst says.
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Interim faculty deans named for Winthrop House
Mark Gearan and Mary Herlihy-Gearan have been named interim faculty deans for Winthrop House.
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Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announces third class of mayors
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced the third class of 41 mayors from around the world who will participate in a yearlong education and professional development program.
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Simmer nears boil in Hong Kong
The Gazette spoke with China expert Anthony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, about the protests and about what the future might hold for Hong Kong.
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Stonewall then and now
Harvard scholars reflect on the history and legacy of the 1969 Stonewall demonstrations that triggered the contemporary battle for LGBT rights in America.
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Halting urban violence seen as a key to ending poverty
Harvard Kennedy School researcher and former Obama official Thomas Abt’s new book offers a concrete prescription for bringing peace to the streets.
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As measles cases crack 1,000, a look at what to do
Harvard public health and public safety experts recommended public education, elimination of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for schoolkids, and potentially more severe penalties as a way to get parents to comply with measles vaccination guidelines.
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The sparring over trade
Far more than avocados and Modelo beer will be affected if the U.S. follows through on threats to start taxing Mexico, China, and other countries. Sustained disputes could destabilize the global economy, prompt an economic downturn, and pose national security risks.
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Generation Merkel at Harvard
The Gazette speaks with members of Harvard’s Generation Merkel in advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s commencement speech.
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‘No longer a guest, no longer an outsider, no longer a spectator’
At a naturalization ceremony at the Harvard Kennedy School, 43 men and women became American citizens.
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Intelligence matters
Former intelligence officers, lawmakers, national security analysts, and top journalists discussed some of the ethical and moral issues in intelligence work and looked at the current challenges facing those in the field during a conference this week hosted by the Intelligence Project, a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the…
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Women lead Rwanda’s renaissance
A quarter-century after genocide killed as many as a million Rwandans, the country’s women are leading its renaissance.
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Dispelling regional stereotypes
A group of first-year joint-degree students from Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and representatives from West Virginia’s government and its flagship school, West Virginia University, exchanged trips.
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Al Gore named Class Day speaker
Al Gore has been chosen to speak on Class Day, the day before Harvard’s 368th Commencement. The former vice president, a Nobel Prize laureate and Harvard alumnus, has had a long career in public service and since leaving office has devoted his life to raising awareness of the threat of climate change.
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‘The same in private as they are in public’
Shorenstein Center Fellow Miguel Head, who served for a decade as chief of staff and press secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry, talks about the royals and the changing role of the British press
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Rocketwoman
Fifty years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind” on the moon. In his wake hundreds of others have flown into space, including Ellen Ochoa, a four-time shuttle astronaut who stepped down as director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018 and is currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy…
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Journalist, whistleblower, or dangerous security leak?
Legal, intelligence, and news analysts discuss the arrest in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces conspiracy charges by U.S. federal prosecutors for the disclosure of classified national security documents stolen by Pfc. Chelsea Manning
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Bringing back hope
In conversation with Bridget Terry Long, dean of the Graduate School of Education, President Larry Bacow discusses the role of universities in building economic opportunity.
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Probing the roots and rise of white supremacy
Adam Serwer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Shorenstein fellow, discusses the lasting appeal of white supremacist ideology in light of an avowed white supremacist’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people and injured dozens more.
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‘Failed’ Trump-Kim summit could spark real diplomacy
A seminar at Harvard’s Kennedy School, planned to assess the outcomes of the Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, instead dissected the meeting’s “failure” and what it means for diplomacy.
