Election 2020
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Nation & World
Organizing, but not compartmentalizing
LaTosha Brown, founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, shares insight on increasing voter turnout in a post-election conversation on Feb. 11.
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Nation & World
And now, the way forward
Harvard faculty members reflect on the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the challenges that await them in the months ahead.
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Nation & World
‘History has its eyes on us’
Harvard alumna Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem during the ceremony on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Recognizing pain but seizing hope
Harvard faculty and students reflect on a solemn, powerful presidential inaugural for troubled times.
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Nation & World
Concern over storming of the Capitol
In a stunning display, violent insurgents who support President Donald Trump briefly occupied the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, disrupting its work on certifying the presidential election. Harvard faculty reacted critically, and President Larry Bacow said the rioters “assaulted the democratic process.”
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Nation & World
So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.
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How far right will Trump’s nominee move the Supreme Court?
Harvard professor discusses how far right Trump’s nominee could move the Supreme Court.
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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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Getting out the vote
Tova Wang spoke with the Gazette about how young Americans can get political leaders to listen to them and persuade cynical friends or family members that every ballot matters.
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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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Faith in the ballot
How white evangelicals tour the nation’s capital and redeem a Christian America.
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A big election amid pandemic in a riven land
Harvard faculty consider the logistical and political challenges as states prepare to try to safely run a presidential election in the middle of a global pandemic.