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Steve Kerr surrounded by students.

Get your head in the game

NBA coach Steve Kerr visits the Kennedy School to talk both sports and personal politics

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DateJanuary 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Bradley DeWees in Memorial Church.

Ready for takeoff

An Air Force major completes his Ph.D. and becomes a new parent — all in three years

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DateMay 27, 2019June 28, 2019

Larry Bacow.

President Bacow goes to Washington

Harvard’s new leader tells audience he’ll be a vocal advocate for public service, higher education

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DateJuly 20, 2018July 24, 2018

Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown, prays with Benjamin Crump, attorney for the families of Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Stephon Clark, at the IOP's forum on the Black Lives Matter movement four years after Brown's slaying.

Black Lives Matter: A next chapter

Discussion of Michael Brown’s killing also reflects on how to improve conditions

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DateApril 24, 2018April 24, 2018

"I wanted to look at the Cold War in terms of how it was created, the people who created it, the reason why it was taken so incredibly seriously by people who I think in other circumstances would have thought very differently," said Odd Arne Westad, author of "The Cold War."

The Cold War’s endless ripples

In new book, historian Odd Arne Westad contends that U.S.-Soviet face-off was far longer, broader than thought

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DateFebruary 16, 2018February 16, 2018

counterprotesters overwhelm white nationalists at Boston Common

Normalizing white nationalist hate

Panel examines movement’s rise to prominence, discusses ways to lessen it

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DateOctober 19, 2017October 24, 2017

Jordan Klepper of Comedy Central's "The Opposition" discusses satire with Jesse Shelburne and Sharon Yang, president and vice president of the IOP's Student Advisory Committee.

Finding the humor in politics, barely

Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper talks new show – and divided nation – at Kennedy School

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DateOctober 12, 2017October 12, 2017

The U.S. should pursue closer relations with China as a way of promoting international stability, said Niall Ferguson (right), who sees an opening for this as strategy. Ferguson was joined by Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, at a Kennedy School forum.

How China and the U.S. might collide — or not

Allison, Ferguson, and Power assess chances of future conflict

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DateMarch 23, 2017March 24, 2017

Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf moderated a conversation with Maine Sen. Susan Collins Thursday night, following a full day of lab tours and later meeting with students from Maine.

Waiting for the storm to pass

Sen. Susan Collins hopes for renewal of bipartisanship under next president

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DateOctober 13, 2016December 15, 2017

“... We are in a place now where the current state of technology has outstripped our legal and policy frameworks," said Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Rogers was joined by Belfer Center Director Graham Allison.

U.S. needs upgrade against cyber threats, commander says

NSA chief outlines growing list of targets in Kennedy School visit

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DateOctober 7, 2016November 4, 2016