Tag: Presidential Election

  • Nation & World

    After a hard election, the real work begins

    Harvard University scholars, analysts, and affiliates take a look at what the election tells us about the prospects for greater unity and progress, and offer suggestions and predictions about where the new administration will, and should, go.

    Kamala Harris, Harris, President-elect Joe Biden.
  • Nation & World

    Challenges mount for election officials

    Pandemic procedural complications and crises of voter confidence all but ensure a rocky election.

    Voting illustration.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Network Propaganda’ explored

    “Network Propaganda,” which is based on a three-year study, examines American politics and the media ecosystem surrounding the 2016 presidential election.

    Book cover
  • Campus & Community

    Election Day at Harvard

    After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.

  • Nation & World

    Voting rights, unsettled

    As the presidential election nears, Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar provides historical context on the efforts by some states to place new restrictions on voting rights.

  • Nation & World

    Inquiring minds

    Peter Hart, one of the nation’s leading opinion pollsters, gave students at Harvard Kennedy School a lesson in the art of asking questions and probing answers.

  • Science & Tech

    How Google sees the race

    Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a Ph.D. student in economics, uses Google Insights for Search, an online tool for extracting data from the millions of daily Google searches, and then uses statistical tools to analyze the data to gain insights on who is likely to vote and on voter turnout on Election Day.

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    Stem cell policy may change, but money still a problem

    Embryonic stem cell research will likely have a more sympathetic ear in the White House after November’s presidential election, but a panel of speakers said Tuesday (May 20) that an era of tight budgets may limit the practical changes researchers see.