Tag: John Boehner

  • 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.

    21–32 minutes
    Thomas E. Patterson.
  • Nation & World

    After Boehner

    Douglas Heye, a former top communications official with the GOP and now a fall fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, discusses the turmoil within the Republican Party following House Speaker John Boehner’s abrupt retirement announcement.

    8–11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A new chapter for Congress

    Forty-seven Harvard alumni will be part of the 114th Congress, which began this week.

    2–3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Avoiding a ‘fiscal train wreck’

    During remarks Thursday (Feb. 24) at the Harvard Kennedy School, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor portrayed the United States as a “fiscal train wreck” and sketched the stark choices that Republicans consider necessary to fuel the nation’s economic engine.

    3–5 minutes