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OCTOBER 24, 2024 |
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Viewers gathered to watch the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump at a bar and grill in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) | | |
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION |
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Election resources from HKS experts |
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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris—who present vastly different visions of America and its future—are campaigning across the country at a time of deep political division. As this election season nears to a close, Harvard Kennedy School has collected resources to help understand this consequential moment. From explaining how to turn back the tide of political vitriol and violence, to analyzing the foreign policy challenges facing the next administration, to breaking down the importance of race and gender in this election, HKS faculty and research centers provide analysis through articles, videos, podcasts, and more.
Learn more about Presidential Elections at HKS » | | |
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What we're Reading |
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HKS Professor Roya Talibova is exploring responses to political violence | | |
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HEALTH |
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The next US administration will need holistic solutions to address multiple epidemics |
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Regardless of which candidate or party wins the coming presidential election, American policymakers face a series of ongoing epidemics—firearm violence, opioid overdose deaths, obesity, maternal mortality, and mental health crises—with deep and unequal effects. In a new Q&A, HKS Professor Marcella Alsan discusses the public health issues, and policy choices, facing the next administration. “There needs to be a shared understanding that this unevenness in health outcomes is indeed a problem—and that the government is at least partially responsible for solving it,” Alsan says. “Many of these issues require policies that go beyond the biomedical sphere typically associated with healthcare.”
Learn more about Health at HKS » | | |
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What we're learning |
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A new project examines how “middle powers” inhabit an international landscape marked by U.S.-China competition | | |
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Human Rights |
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Policy responses to a growing anti-LGBTQ threat |
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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination is on the rise, both in the United States, where hate crime statistics are climbing, and globally with the increase in right-wing populist governments who are weaponizing public sentiment against marginalized people. But rights advocates around the world are pushing back, despite threats of physical harm, prosecution, and even death. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has launched a new program, with Center Director Professor Mathias Risse as faculty director, to support those advocates. Faculty chair of the program, HGSE Lecturer Tim McCarthy, and Program Director Diego Garcia Blum, joined PolicyCast to talk about the project and about policy responses to a growing threat.
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