by jpitney | Jan 30, 2024 | Civility, Debate, Deliberation
From The Harvard Gazette: The original framework for American democracy was hammered out amid heated disagreement and rigorous debate. Now, in this period of hardening political and social schisms, what’s hampering progress isn’t that we disagree, but how we do it or...
by jpitney | Oct 9, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Israel
Jewish News Service: Jews for Liberation is one of dozens of Harvard student group signatories to a joint statement of Harvard “Palestine solidarity groups on the situation in Palestine.” “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2022 | Public Opinion, Youth
From the Harvard Kennedy School: A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that while 18-to-29-year-olds are on track to match 2018’s record-breaking youth turnout in a midterm election this November and prefer...