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Tag: Republican
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Nation & World
Looking at role of prosecutors, politics in mass incarceration
Research by a Harvard doctoral student found that district attorneys push harder for convictions and sentences in election years.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
Tax on university endowments passes
Harvard President Drew Faust said that the tax bill represents an unprecedented attack on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and charities because it taxes, for the first time, income for such an institution’s core mission — in this case, education.
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Nation & World
The lessons of election ’12
Two political philosophers from opposite sides of the fence met at the Tsai Center to size up the factors in play during the recent presidential election, and the weight that they could take on in 2016.
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Nation & World
Portrait of the Tea Party
New book documents a rising movement of likable people with offbeat ideas, who constitute a major influence on the Republican Party in this presidential election.
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Nation & World
Learning to listen
About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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Nation & World
The EPA at 40
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that strong Republican gains in November’s election do not mean there is a public mandate to roll back EPA protections.
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Nation & World
Standing at center-right in America
Norman Coleman Jr. states his case: America is a center-right nation, and the party that understands that wins elections.
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Nation & World
Fundamental realities
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers a list of “fundamental realities” facing the United States in the coming years in a talk at Harvard this week, as well as a list of ways to best confront them.
