Tag: Election

  • Nation & World

    Voting-roll vulnerability

    Online attackers may be able to purchase enough personal information to alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, a new study says.

    7 minutes
    Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, Department of Government Latanya Sweeney
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    Novelist Perrotta headlines LITFest

    Novelist Tom Perrotta, who headlines Harvard’s LITFest on Feb. 4, talks with a television co-writer and a Harvard instructor about the craft.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Candidates announced for Overseers, Alumni Association elected directors

    Harvard alumni will receive ballots to vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors this spring.

    2 minutes
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    Larry Wilmore on the election

    In the end, comedian Larry Wilmore said in delivering the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, Americans elected the president they wanted.

    5 minutes
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    Election Day at Harvard

    After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.

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    Woe to the losers

    A new study co-authored by a Harvard Kennedy School researcher sees deep sorrow ahead for those on the wrong side of the election.

    2 minutes
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    Student election upcoming

    Harvard students in teaching and research positions will vote Nov. 16, 17 on whether to have a union represent them.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The stressed-out electorate

    Harvard analysts discuss findings of a new study that shows more than half of Americans say the presidential election is stressing them out.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The unchanging election

    Veteran pollster Peter D. Hart analyzes the 2016 election and sees far less volatility than headlines would suggest.

    4 minutes
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    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.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Five elected as Overseers

    Five new members have been elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers.

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  • Nation & World

    The workings of the Overseers

    With an Overseer election underway, the Gazette talked with the incoming and outgoing presidents of the Board of Overseers about the board, its role at the University, and their experiences serving on it.

    7 minutes
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    Election spotlight turned on media

    Veteran political journalists Jill Abramson, formerly of The New York Times, and CNN’s Sam Feist discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2016 presidential election coverage.

    7 minutes
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    Netanyahu, in the driver’s seat

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Walt assesses the Israeli election, in which Benjamin Netanyahu was triumphant.

    6 minutes
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    Power shift

    David King, a senior lecturer at the Kennedy School, answers questions on the midterm elections and what’s next for lawmakers.

    4 minutes
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    Elections open for Overseers and HAA directors

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Elections open for HAA

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The lessons of election ’12

    Two political philosophers from opposite sides of the fence met at the Tsai Center to size up the factors in play during the recent presidential election, and the weight that they could take on in 2016.

    4 minutes
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    Election reflection by Dukakis

    In a wide-ranging talk at Harvard, Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic candidate for president, discussed the 2012 presidential election and the challenges facing the nation.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Religion and politics, now

    In a talk sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, four religious scholars explored the question of “Religion and the Election: Does it Matter?”

    4 minutes
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    Board of Overseers election results

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The elected directors of the HAA were also announced on May 24.

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  • Nation & World

    HAA to open April 1 election

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association board.

    2 minutes
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    Alumni go to Washington

    Harvard alumni elected to Washington offices, governorships.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HAA announces 2010 Board of Overseers election results

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association today (May 27) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    Political operative Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Kennedy School, spoke last week at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum and regaled the audience with some of last year’s election bloopers.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    HAA announces Elected Director results

    Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), recently announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Alumni Association. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 358th Commencement on June 4.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    War Stories: Inside Campaign 2008 at the Institute of Politics

    No one will ever confuse the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School with Gillette Stadium. But the forum was host Thursday evening (Dec. 11) to two of the undisputed rock stars of American political campaigns: David Axelrod and David Plouffe, chief strategist and manager, respectively, for Barack Obama’s successful campaign for…

    4 minutes
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    Harvard students caught up in election excitement

    On this year’s election night, the Harvard News Office cast its staff of writers and photographers out over the University to serve as witnesses. From the Kennedy School to the Queen’s Head pub, they recorded on notebook and film the tension, the growing enthusiasm, and the final nearly ecstatic pandemonium that marked this historic occasion.

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    Election 2008 excitement

    Harvard students came together and tuned in to the national media at Election Night 2008 gatherings that ranged from small and quiet to large and loud, ultimately spilling into Harvard’s Yard and Square.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Board of Overseers election results, HAA-elected directors

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 357th Commencement.

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