Tag: 2020 election
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Nation & World
Will anything come of Jan. 6 hearings?
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Harvard Law School and Harvard College alum, previews what the public can expect from the committee in the coming weeks.
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Adam Schiff vows speedy, aggressive probe of Jan. 6 assault
Rep. Adam Schiff discusses why he sees his work on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as part of a broader continuum that began with the Ukraine matter.
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Nation & World
How women led anti-Trump resistance
Washington Post political columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the key role women played in the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency in advance of her Oct. 7 virtual book talk at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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Nation & World
Black voters take the wheel
Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown explains how decades of painstaking activism culminated in Black voters’ decisive and historic role in the 2020 election.
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What to look for at Trump’s impeachment trial
Trump is the first president to be impeached for a second time and will be the first to be tried after leaving office.
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What prompted Capitol rioters to violence?
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol over Donald Trump’s election loss stunned the country and forced many to ask what prompts people to political violence.
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121 organizations, 390 volunteers, and 1,700 stamps
How the Harvard Votes Challenge initiative helped tens of thousands of voters participate in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
An electorate that wanted to be heard
Kennedy School panelists gathered online for a conversation on the issues and consequences of the presidential election, which they lauded as orderly and successful.
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Nation & World
Pulled to the polls
The Harvard Votes Challenge has recruited more than 150 affiliates to work the polls as part of its partnership with the Safe Elections Network and Power to the Polls. The Gazette spoke to a handful of students and staff about why they decided to get involved.
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American voters don’t hate ambitious women, after all
Upending conventional wisdom, new political science research finds that voters aren’t automatically put off by ambitious women candidates.
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Nation & World
The push for campus election clout
The Institute of Politics’ National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement weekend-long conference drew approximately 125 students and school administrators, who shared notes on campus voting initiatives in the 2018 elections and brainstormed how to expand on them in 2020.