Tag: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

  • Nation & World

    How to save democracy

    Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.

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    Joan Donovan (left) and Gabriella Coleman.
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    ‘No longer a guest, no longer an outsider, no longer a spectator’

    At a naturalization ceremony at the Harvard Kennedy School, 43 men and women became American citizens.

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    two women pledging during a citizenship ceremony
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    When it comes to politics, what’s love got to do with it?

    The American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur C. Brooks and University Professor Danielle Allen agree to disagree (and sometimes to agree) in lively exchange over the political necessity of love.

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    Arthur Brooks talks with University Professor Danielle Allen
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    Mulling the Mueller report

    A panel of journalists and former Rep. Barbara Comstock discussed what might lie ahead for presidential investigations Wednesday at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

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    Robert Mueller
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    Black Lives Matter: A next chapter

    Four years after Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo., young people of color are still dying. Still, as a panel discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum noted, a movement has grown at the same time.

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    Vexing health problems can be solved, Gawande believes

    Tackling complex issues such as opioid addiction, gun violence, and uneven access to medical care seems daunting, but surgeon and author Atul Gawande says history shows that over time, the nation can solve its public health challenges.

    5 minutes
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    Questions and concerns about America’s future

    The Institute of Politics at Harvard opened up the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum to students’ questions and concerns about America.

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    The robots are coming, but relax

    As artificial intelligence takes hold in more fields, you’ll likely have a job, analysts say, but it may be a different one.

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    On DACA, questions top answers

    When it comes to DACA, panelists say, the road ahead still promises more questions than answers.

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    Robots, exoskeletons, and invisible planes

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is the rare government agency that is all about change, in this case endlessly improving technology that has military applications.

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    Abdul-Jabbar on what America needs

    The athlete turned author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar muses on how America has changed for the better, and how it hasn’t.

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    The director and the whistle-blower

    Filmmaker Oliver Stone tells a Kennedy School audience how he came to make a film about the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

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    After Ferguson’s fury

    A panel convened by HLS professor Charles Ogletree reflected on the broad social, legal, and political issues raised by the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last month.

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    Correa touts the ‘Ecuadorian Miracle’

    In describing his country’s progress in recent years, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa made an energetic case in support of his policies during an address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday.

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    The melding of technology

    Former MIT President Susan Hockfield discussed the power of technology’s ongoing convergence during a session at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

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    A monument to saved art

    “The Monuments Men,” a based-on-a-true-story World War II action film that opens in theaters Friday, depicts an international team of middle-aged art experts in uniform who are racing to liberate priceless art from the Nazis. Many of the real-life team members were Harvard-trained.

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    Making this economy work

    In honor of its 30th anniversary, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government brought together heavy hitters in economics and government to discuss how private and public leaders can help the United States thrive again.

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    Reading the president’s mind

    Jon Favreau, who recently stepped down after several years as President Obama’s head speechwriter, took a Harvard Kennedy School audience on a behind-the-scenes tour of the president’s best-known addresses.

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    A postwar call to service

    : The United States must do more to help its newest generation of veterans reintegrate by capitalizing on their desire to serve, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said at a panel event in honor of Harvard’s veterans.

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    Driving global issues home

    In an ever-more-crowded media landscape, journalists and academics alike must think creatively about how to bring overlooked human-rights issues to Americans’ attention, said Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 as he accepted the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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    How the big speech fared

    After Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Harvard College students at the Institute of Politics watch party offered their first impressions of President Obama’s second-term agenda.

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    A peek behind the podium

    Veteran political strategists weighed in on the blood, sweat, and tears that go into prepping a presidential candidate, during a Harvard Kennedy School watch party for the first presidential debate. The vice presidential debate is 9-10 p.m. Oct. 11 from Centre College, Danville, Ky. The second presidential debate is 9-10:30 p.m. Oct. 16, Hofstra University…

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    Freedom in motion

    Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the Godkin Lecture and took questions from students last night at Harvard Kennedy School.

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    Block the vote

    Should citizens have to show photo identification to vote? In recent years, many states have decided they do. A group of panelists debated the hotly partisan issue — and the possible implications for poor and elderly voters — at Harvard Kennedy School.

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    A Nobel cause in the Arab world

    The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School

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    Palin’s game-changing legacy

    Political journalists Mark Halperin ’87 and John Heilemann, M.P.A. ’90, returned to Harvard Thursday night to screen and discuss the new HBO Films adaptation of their best-seller “Game Change,” showing that the drama of Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential nomination can still draw an enthusiastic crowd.

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    The business of changing the world

    What will the next generation of social entrepreneurs need to succeed? Analysts debated the future of the budding field — and Harvard students demonstrated it — at Harvard Kennedy School on Feb. 24.

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    Women as peacemakers

    Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

    4 minutes
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    Dealing with inequality

    A panel discusses “The Growing Challenge of Inequality,” an issue easily described and summarized, but difficult to solve, the speakers said, given the political and economic climate that currently dominates the United States.

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    The ripple of fiscal problems

    Eurozone’s ongoing problems create a ripple effect in developing nations, says World Bank president.

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