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Getting the Word Out
Changing the Way America Communicates with the World M.C. Andrews was Special Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Global Communications from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, Andrews was the Director for Democracy...
Working for Workers
Former AFL-CIO and SEIU President John Sweeney John Sweeney was president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, and is currently a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. HPR: When you were president of SEIU Local 32B in New York in the...
Delayed Development, No Political Communication: Harvard in Allston
Will politics influence how these cranes work in Allston? Bill Purcell, the current director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and former mayor of Nashville,...
Serfs Up! Unpaid Interns and the Culture of Dependence
I’m posting the column that was scheduled to run in this week’s Harvard Independent… until the issue was canceled. This is an elaboration of...
Georgian President Vows “No Wine For Russia” at IOP
Well, not completely. But Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, did boast yesterday that the wine produced in Georgia is simply so good (thanks to his free...
Are Interns SLAVES?
Slaves? No — that would be a tasteless joke. But they do perform a lot of work for free! As The New York Times explains in a piece that should have...
Tweet Summary of Halperin/Heilemann Forum
Can you blog Tweets? I don’t know, but let’s give this a try. For those of you who couldn’t spend an hour and a half at the Halperin/Heilemann...
First Friend in the Forum
Valerie Jarrett wowed the JFK Jr. Forum tonight. More than a few told me that it was their favorite Forum of the year, no small feat in a year of big names: Newt...
The Politics of Human Trafficking
Ursula Plassnik is a current member of Austria’s Parliament and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics. She was instrumental in managing Austria’s...
He Works Hard for his Party
Terry McAuliffe on the Democratic Party in 2009 Terry McAuliffe has been helping democrats get elected for decades. He formerly served as the chairman...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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