Harvard Kennedy School turns passion into possibility
Veterans Grace Y. Park MPP 2023 and Soren T. Duggan MPA 2023 discuss Jon Stewart's passion: veterans’ rights.
Engaging with democracy
Did democracy hold? HKS professors recap the 2022 midterm elections
With the control of the House and Senate still undecided, there is good reason for optimism as well as concern about the strength of democracy in the United States.
Saving democracy is too important to leave “to nerds like me”
Harvard behavioral scientist Julia Minson says an experiment based on a beer ad shows the power of creative approaches to easing partisan conflict.
It’s not a moment of racial justice backlash—it’s an era—and a crisis of democracy
Speaking in the JFK Jr. Forum, civil rights leader Maya Wiley underscored the entwined fate of democracy and racial justice.
How to save democracy
Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.
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