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Tag: Barack Obama
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Nation & World
Well-meaning tyranny of identity politics
Yascha Mounk chronicles how ideology took over, where it went wrong
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Work & Economy
How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?
Book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of how Americans came to trust markets more than government.
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Nation & World
‘We can be better than this’
Freeman A. Hrabowski III praises, pushes Harvard in inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture
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Nation & World
Dangers lurk in wake of U.S. pullout in Afghanistan
The shrinking U.S. Mideast presence and a growing Chinese influence are a bad mix, scholars say at a Harvard panel.
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Nation & World
Powell’s legacy, in admirers’ words and his own
Kennedy School faculty reflect on the death of former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, a groundbreaking diplomat, Pentagon chief, and Army general.
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Nation & World
Rush to stop ‘Havana syndrome’
Intelligence analysts and reporters discuss the enduring Havana syndrome.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names vice provost for climate and sustainability
James H. Stock, a Harvard professor and economist known for his expertise on energy and environmental policy, has been named the University’s inaugural vice provost for climate and sustainability.
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Nation & World
Analysts in economics, public policy give Biden infrastructure plan high marks
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.
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Nation & World
The GOP house divided
Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.
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Nation & World
Clinton reflects on foreign policy triumphs and challenges
Former President Bill Clinton gave the inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy in honor of the late U.S. ambassador, looking back on his international actions that still reverberate in U.S. foreign relations today.
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Nation & World
Head of global atomic energy agency details 11th-hour talks with Tehran
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi discussed his recent trip to Iran, his negotiations with Iranian leaders, along with the extra burdens placed on his agency by the dangers of the pandemic.
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Nation & World
‘History has its eyes on us’
Harvard alumna Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem during the ceremony on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Reaffirming inauguration rituals after Capitol assault
How the symbolic aspects of a cornerstone of American democracy evolved.
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Nation & World
Reining in growing powers of the presidency
Bob Bauer ’73 and Jack Goldsmith propose what they say are long-overdue reforms to the Office of the President.
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Nation & World
Recalling another strange, historic election
Harvard historians and scholars look at the 1872 presidential election that saw feminist Victoria Woodhull and abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the same ticket.
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Campus & Community
‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’
As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.
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Nation & World
Defending The Times in a perilous age
Lead newsroom attorney details changes since 9/11, dangers facing reporters, and rise in hostility against media led by White House.
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Nation & World
Obama: In trying times, truth first
During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.
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Nation & World
What makes for a moral foreign policy?
In his book, “Do Morals Matter?,” Joseph S. Nye Jr. rates every U.S. president from FDR to Trump on the ethics of their foreign policy decisions.
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Nation & World
Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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Nation & World
A ‘Prisoner’ story
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
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Nation & World
John Kerry, still in the game
During a visit to Harvard, former Secretary of State John Kerry encourages students to do more than show up to vote: to take action.
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Nation & World
Reflections of an envoy
During a Harvard visit, Caroline Kennedy recalls her years as ambassador to Japan, including President Obama’s trip to Hiroshima.
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Campus & Community
Learning while leading at Harvard Law Review
Michael Thomas Jr. is the third African-American man elected president of the Harvard Law Review. Barack Obama was the first.
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Nation & World
The worries over U.S. intelligence
After nearly six decades in U.S. intelligence, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talks candidly about what he saw and learned protecting the country, and why he’s felt compelled in a new book to speak out about President Trump and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
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Nation & World
An electoral French revolution
Two recent Harvard Kennedy School graduates talk about how their involvement in Emmanuel Macron’s insurgent campaign in France had roots in their time at Harvard.
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Nation & World
The Obama years, in photos
Pete Souza, former White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, joined Ann Marie Lipinski at the JFK Jr. Forum to discuss his time photographing the First Families.
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Nation & World
The writer behind the speeches
Harvard alumna Sarah Hurwitz, the speechwriter behind two of the world’s most popular and powerful women, former first lady Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, talks about her unusual career path and why politics is all about failure.
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Nation & World
Inside the hacked U.S. election
Kevin Ryan, a Russia-U.S. security analyst and Belfer Center director of defense and intelligence projects, discusses the conclusion by U.S. intelligence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and did so in an effort to boost the Republicans.
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Nation & World
Impact of the nation’s first black president
Scholars, practitioners, and activists at Harvard Kennedy School consider race and justice in the Obama era.
