Tag: JFK Jr. Forum

  • Nation & World

    Toomey doesn’t see recession looming

    The former Republican senator offered his views on the state of the U.S. economy and the looming debt ceiling showdown in Washington.

    5 minutes
    Karen Dynan and Pat Toomey.
  • Nation & World

    Black progress, white anger

    Eddie S. Glaude Jr. spoke at the latest virtual JFK Jr. Forum, which is part of the “Reckoning with the Past, Rebuilding the Future” speaker.

    4 minutes
    Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  • 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.

    4 minutes
    University Professor Danielle Allen onstage at the Kennedy School forum.
  • Nation & World

    Yes, you can change the world, says Bryan Stevenson

    When lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, spoke at the Kennedy School Tuesday, his topic was nothing less than changing the world, something that he urged everyone in the capacity crowd to think of as both a responsibility and a possibility.

    4 minutes
    Bryan Stevenson at the Kennedy School.
  • 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.

    7 minutes
    John Kerry and IOP fellows
  • Nation & World

    Fears of national insecurity

    Former Obama cabinet members talk with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about national security issues in the Trump administration.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Finding the humor in politics, barely

    The host of “The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper” shared thoughts on Trump, satire, and our polarized nation during a visit to the Kennedy School.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    To improve education, reallocate funds, DeVos urges

    U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos argued in favor of more school choice as a remedy for the nation’s beleaguered public education system during a protest-marked forum at the Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening.

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    U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks on the topic of school choice at a JFK Jr. Forum.
  • 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.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Not very good governance

    Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School consider why Congress isn’t working.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Don’t look now: It’s election ’16

    Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School take an early look at the likely field of candidates in both parties for the 2016 presidential election.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spoils of war

    While global pressure to curb the use of children in combat has worked in some places, the persistent challenge for international organizations is to find ways to integrate damaged former soldiers back into the communities they were led to violate and abandon, Harvard panelists say.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The media, remade

    Three spring 2013 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Nieman Journalism Lab, this week launched an oral history/research multimedia project called “Riptide” to document the digital disruption of the news business and what that means for the future of news gathering and news publishing.

    4 minutes