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Tag: Politics
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Pollster looks at how pandemic, loss of RBG may affect election
Polling methodology expert Chase Harrison talks about why the 2020 election polls can explain how COVID-19 may reshape the vote, and offers some useful insights into the presidential race.
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A portrait of JFK, in full
Fredrik Logevall’s biography on John F. Kennedy aims to chronicle a complex life amid a pivotal time for a nation.
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In this election, ‘costly signal deployment’
As the 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric heats up, Harvard experimental psychologist Joshua D. Greene, who studies the science behind tribal instincts and moral judgments, looks at the strategy behind President Trump’s increasingly provocative, extreme language.
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After the protest … what next?
As protests condemning police brutality against African Americans and systemic racism in the U.S. continue, Harvard faculty share their views on what they’d like to see happen next.
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When we can’t even agree on what is real
New research from Harvard economists finds partisan politics isn’t just shaping policy opinions, it’s distorting our understanding of reality.
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The culture of Earth Day
As Earth Day turns 50, Harvard examines how it brought environmentalism into everyday life.
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Leadership on the front line
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.
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Oliver Hart named University Professor
Nobel-laureate economics Professor Oliver Hart is awarded Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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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.
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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.
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Our unrepresentative representative government
In his new book, “They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy,” Lawrence Lessig writes about the issues undermining American democracy, such as big money in politics, gerrymandering, vote suppression, and the inequities of the Electoral College system.
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End the Electoral College?
Harvard panel speakers differ on whether disabling the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote would solve presidential selection-system ills.
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A Platonic ideal of a news website
Adam Moss, now a fall fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, launches an eight-week workshop for students to consider the current business realities of political journalism and develop an ideal of a financially viable news site that delivers what readers want and need.
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On the Brexit hot seat
On Monday the man who has emerged as a celebrity of the Brexit debate, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, came to campus during a brief break from his duty as official referee of the popularly elected legislative body.
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Diversity and dialogue in an age of division
Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”
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Lessons from a gubernatorial loss
Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who excited Democrats’ hopes with his progressive message in Florida’s gubernatorial race in November, will work with students at the Institute of Politics this semester to expand ideas of how change happens.
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Bobo named dean of social science
A scholar whose research probes inequality, politics, and race, Lawrence D. Bobo has been appointed dean of social science at Harvard. He takes the helm Oct. 1.
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Waiting for the pendulum to swing back won’t cut it
Georgetown Professor Michael Kazin says the ideas of the left are more popular than ever, but to succeed changes must be made — and he lists three ways that can happen.
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Political failure through a business lens
A new report from Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter and co-author Katherine Gehl looks at the country’s dysfunctional political system through the lens of business competition to find practical, effective ways to improve how politics serves what should be its most important customers: average voters.
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Apathy not an option, Biden says
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden tells College seniors to avoid apathy and help shape their nation, during Class Day speech in Harvard Yard.
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Waiting for the storm to pass
Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, talked politics with Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf in a visit to the Kennedy School following a day of lab tours and meeting with students.
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Debating the debates
On the eve of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Harvard analysts discuss whether presidential debates offer citizens civic value anymore and how to improve them as the nation navigates its political differences.
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The making of the campaign, 2016
New analysis by Harvard Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson finds the conflicted motivation of news outlets covering the 2016 election has resulted in significantly lopsided and disparate attention paid to the Republican and Democratic candidates.
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The link between art and history
The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School are collaborating on a program that brings history to life through the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.
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Pinning their hopes on buttons
Catchy slogans, iconic symbols, and striking colors are the makings for memorable political buttons.
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Election spotlight turned on media
Veteran political journalists Jill Abramson, formerly of The New York Times, and CNN’s Sam Feist discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2016 presidential election coverage.
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His eye on I-teams
The movie “Spotlight” shows investigative reporting at the heart of journalism’s charge, says editor who led child abuse probe.
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The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Marianne Williamson brings spirituality to politics
Marianne Williamson, the internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, will discuss the moral evolution of America, starting from its founding, in her talk “On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America” at Harvard Divinity School on Oct. 14.
