Tag: Elizabeth Warren

  • Nation & World

    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.

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    A pedestrian passes a Silicon Valley Bank branch
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    Mayor Michelle Wu named Class Day speaker

    Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”

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    Michelle Wu
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    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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    Jennifer Rubin.
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    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.…

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    Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right,
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    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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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg casket at top of Supreme Court stairs.
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    For politics, a ray of hope

    At a time when American politics are beset by deep divisions and regular paralysis, five U.S. senators told a Harvard Law School audience that there is real reason for concern and yet some hope for their institution and the country.

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    From left, moderator David Gergen, Sens. Tom Cotton, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren, and Jack Reed.
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    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.

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    The women who questioned Wall Street

    A trio of Wall Street’s toughest critics talks about gender and taking on what’s been called America’s ultimate boys’ club.

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    2016 issues: Voter anger, distrust

    Public opinion analyst Peter Hart sizes up the country’s mood and the primary field during a talk at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy.

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    Answering the bell

    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren returned to Harvard, along with others, to advocate that undergraduates consider careers in public service, as part of the “Public Interested” conference.

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    Bad bridges to nowhere

    Harvard Business School brings together top leaders in academia, government, and business to consider and address the nation’s transportation and infrastructure shortcomings, which have led to a lag in global competitiveness.

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    Northern exposure

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Michael Ignatieff talks about why he put aside academia to make an improbable and ill-fated foray into Canadian politics.

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    Women in the law

    Hundreds of women convened at Harvard Law School for a weekend event celebrating 60 years of women at the institution.

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    To protect, serve, mourn

    The Harvard University Police Department joined thousands of colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday to pay tribute to Sean Collier, the officer slain in aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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    Harvard goes to Washington

    Tuesday night’s national elections sent a number of Harvard alumni and affiliates off to Washington.

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    Election 2012 at Harvard

    As voters across the United States traipsed to the polls and awaited the election results, so did students, faculty, and staff members at Harvard, the University that helped to educate both major presidential candidates.

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    Bunk or boon?

    Harvard experts weigh in on a massive finance reform bill that draws praise, skepticism — and ire.

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    Super consumer advocate

    Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, spoke at Harvard Law School about her efforts to establish a consumer financial protection agency.

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    Elizabeth Warren is the Bostonian of the Year

    It seemed as if the banks and other firms got a $700 billion bonanza and the American taxpayer got the shaft. But along came this straight-shooting Harvard professor to oversee the bailout, someone who pledged to look out for the middle class and brought a sense of sanity to the economic crisis. For this we…

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    More members of middle class file for bankruptcy

    A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are college-educated and owners of homes…

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Law School

    GQ Magazine has named Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, to its 2009 list of the “50 Most Powerful People in D.C.”

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    A Heroine of ‘Capitalism’

    Passionate and engaging, Warren has long been a fearless advocate for the middle class. She has been embraced by the left-wing blogosphere for challenging economic policymakers and has become a thorn in the side of the bankers and credit card companies, which, she insists, should be better regulated….

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    Inequality and justice, why, where, when, who

    “Universities are inequality machines,” Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said. “Combating inequality works only by leveling up … which often takes…

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