Tag: Bernie Sanders

  • Work & Economy

    Bailouts for everyone?

    Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, a former Federal Reserve Board member, explains the fallout from the bank failures and how they could complicate the Fed’s efforts to curb inflation.

    6–9 minutes
    A pedestrian passes a Silicon Valley Bank branch
  • Nation & World

    Democrats have both Congress and the White House — but not a free hand

    In addition to winning the White House, Democrats will soon take control of Congress for the first time since 2007 after last week’s historic Senate runoff victories by the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia. That will bring dramatic changes to Washington in terms of governing style, tone, competence, and policy priorities, but…

    5–7 minutes
    Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right,
  • Nation & World

    In this election, ‘costly signal deployment’

    As the 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric heats up, Harvard experimental psychologist Joshua D. Greene, who studies the science behind tribal instincts and moral judgments, looks at the strategy behind President Trump’s increasingly provocative, extreme language.

    7–10 minutes
    Harvard Professor of Psychology Joshua Greene.
  • Nation & World

    Politics in a ‘post-truth’ age

    Harvard analysts discuss the unusual dynamics and events of the 2016 presidential election, and what they mean for our political system going forward.

    15–22 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The making of the campaign, 2016

    New analysis by Harvard Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson finds the conflicted motivation of news outlets covering the 2016 election has resulted in significantly lopsided and disparate attention paid to the Republican and Democratic candidates.

    10–15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Trump hasn’t lost his edge, Schieffer says

    The Kennedy School hosted a talk by veteran newsman Bob Schieffer on the state of the presidential race.

    3–4 minutes