Can US Elections Be Rigged?
HKS Professor Alex Keyssar offers an historical perspective to modern worries about rigged elections and weighs the prevention of voter fraud against the risk of voter suppression.
2 Marras 201629min
Interconnected Challenges in Latin America
Peter Quilter, a non-resident fellow at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center, details the internal state of affairs in Colombia, Venezuela, and Cuba, revealing that despite the unique nature of each countr...
26 Loka 201622min
Race in America: Looking to the Past to Understand the Present
HKS Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad makes the case that modern hot-button issues surrounding race, policing and mass incarceration are fundamentally rooted in a widespread failure to educate American...
19 Loka 201633min
2016 Nobelist on Pursuing Peace in Colombia
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, discusses his desire to pursue peace despite the concessions it might entail in a 2013 interview on PolicyCast. Santos ...
12 Loka 20168min
Telling the True Story of Human Trafficking
HKS Lecturer Siddharth Kara of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy explains how his research into the tens of millions of girls around the world who have been forced into sexual slavery led him to...
5 Loka 201636min
Female Journalists in the Middle East
Iranian journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a Fall 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, discusses the challenges she faced as a reporter in her home country, and describes the common thread...
28 Syys 201623min
How the Press Covers the Election
HKS Professor Thomas Patterson, author of an ongoing series of reports out of the Shorenstein Center on the media's coverage of the 2016 election cycle, discusses what he sees as troubling consequence...
21 Syys 201632min
Madeleine Albright on Immigration, the Refugee Crisis, and Youth Activism
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright encourages young activists to join established systems in order to learn how to drive change from within; discusses the emerging relevance of non-state ...
1 Kesä 201616min
