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Tag: Donald Trump
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Nation & World
How far right will Trump’s nominee move the Supreme Court?
Harvard professor discusses how far right Trump’s nominee could move the Supreme Court.
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Pollster looks at how pandemic, loss of RBG may affect election
Polling methodology expert Chase Harrison talks about why the 2020 election polls can explain how COVID-19 may reshape the vote, and offers some useful insights into the presidential race.
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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.
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Nation & World
A big election amid pandemic in a riven land
Harvard faculty consider the logistical and political challenges as states prepare to try to safely run a presidential election in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Nation & World
Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules
Harvard and MIT file suit against a federal order requiring international students to attend classes in person this fall or risk deportation, visa denial.
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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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Work & Economy
American economy on the bubble
As governors weigh when to allow businesses to reopen, Harvard faculty discuss which industries have been helped and hurt by the pandemic, and some of the hurdles surviving businesses will face to reverse their fortunes.
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Nation & World
‘Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns?’
E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.
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Nation & World
Comey defends ‘nightmare I can’t awaken from’
During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.
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Nation & World
Has Trump remade the presidency?
In a new book, authors say Donald Trump is remaking the American presidency into something far more powerful and personal than the country has ever seen.
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Nation & World
How America went astray
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger
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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
On the brink of war
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Sherman discusses the dangers posed by Iran’s announcement that it will not abide by limits set forth in the 2015 nuclear deal, an accord she negotiated on behalf of the U.S.
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Nation & World
Impeachment: What this means, where this leads
To gain a better understanding of the issues in play following the House impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Gazette asked Harvard faculty and affiliates in history, law, politics, government, psychology, and media to offer their thoughts.
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Nation & World
Can this union be saved?
In a country more fractured than ever, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, and writer Adam Serwer discuss what it will take to bring our democracy back together.
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Nation & World
American foreign policy in flux
Former career Ambassador Victoria Nuland, a top State Department expert on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian affairs, discusses the chaos in Syria, Putin’s biggest fear, and what it was like to be “Patient Zero” of Russia’s phone-hacking attacks.
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Nation & World
Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’
New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.
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Nation & World
Clinton, Nixon, and lessons in preparing for impeachment
Veterans of past impeachment battles offer insiders’ looks into the politics, procedure, and strategy of investigators and lawmakers.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
A ringing defense of Trump on trade
President Trump’s trade czar, Peter Navarro, said during a speech at Harvard that the administration’s efforts to remake American trade policies, pressure China to reform its practices, and revamp the tariff system are boosting the American economy.
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Nation & World
What would Dick do?
A panel including Al Gore, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Porter, and Harvey Fineberg, with Graham Allison moderating, discussed what Richard Neustadt would have thought of the Trump presidency on the 100th anniversary of the late Kennedy School professor’s birth.
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Nation & World
Citizens arrested
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but are not treated equally, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said at Radcliffe conference on “Unsettled Citizens.”
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Nation & World
‘A very, very dangerous moment in our country’s history’
Author Daniel Ziblatt analyzes the worldwide movement toward autocracy and concludes American democracy is safe — for now.
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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
Hooked on Mueller probe? Law School student’s blog posts are must-reads
Harvard Law School student Sarah Grant, J.D. ’19, a U.S. Marine captain, is the mind behind some of the most widely discussed legal analyses on the blog Lawfare about the special counsel’s investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign was involved in Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
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Health
Ending HIV transmission by 2030
Eradicating the remaining pockets of HIV transmission in the U.S. by 2030 will be a challenge for the Trump administration, and depend on local cooperation in reaching high-risk groups with surveillance, prevention, and treatment, according to Harvard HIV/AIDS researcher Max Essex.
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Nation & World
‘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.
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Nation & World
It’s spy vs. spy vs. spy
Newly named general editor of a book project documenting espionage and intelligence throughout human history, Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Calder Walton discusses the context of the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s connections to Russia and how spies and spying have evolved over centuries.
