Tag: Senate

  • Nation & World

    Why Church Committee alums urged new House panel to avoid partisanship

    Fritz Schwarz, former chief counsel of the 1975-76 U.S. Senate panel known as the Church Committee, discusses what it was like to undertake the largest, most consequential investigation of U.S. intelligence in American history.

    6 minutes
    Members of the special Senate Committee created to investigate the CIA, FBI and other U.S. Intelligence gathering agencies in 1975.
  • Nation & World

    Change the Senate

    Disproportionate influence of smaller states creates ‘significant democratic deficit,’ Vicki Jackson argues

    4 minutes
    Collage of Constitution and disproportionate voting power.
  • Nation & World

    How women led anti-Trump resistance

    Washington Post political columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the key role women played in the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency in advance of her Oct. 7 virtual book talk at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

    10 minutes
    Jennifer Rubin.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    9 minutes
    Lawrence Lessig
  • 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.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard goes to Washington

    Tuesday night’s national elections sent a number of Harvard alumni and affiliates off to Washington.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    President Faust’s statement on DADT

    President Drew Faust’s statement on “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal.

    1 minute
  • 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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Divided they stand

    What to expect in 2011 and beyond? After this month’s midterm elections, Harvard’s resident analysts look ahead to Congress’ upcoming agenda, from tax reform to foreign policy to the 2012 political calculus.

    5 minutes