March 25, 2016
Erie Meyer is a co-founder of United States Digital Service, a new team working to transform how the federal government works for the American people....
March 22, 2016
March 22, 2016 — Linda Greenhouse, longtime New York Times Supreme Court reporter, discussed the current polarization of the court, the nomination of Merrick...
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March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016 — Nancy Gibbs, editor of TIME, discussed the parallels between the disruption of the media industry and the upheaval of politics during the...
February 23, 2016
February 23, 2016 — E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post op-ed columnist, discussed his new book, Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism from Goldwater to...
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February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016 — Jill Abramson, lecturer at Harvard and former executive editor of The New York Times, discussed the 2016 election and its coverage...
February 16, 2016
February 16, 2016 — Sam Feist, who leads the production of CNN’s campaign coverage and debates as Washington bureau chief and senior vice president, discussed...
February 3, 2016
February 3, 2016 — Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, veteran CBS reporter, and former moderator of “Face the Nation,” discussed...
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November 13, 2015
“Our criminal justice system isn’t as smart as it should be.” — President Obama, July 15, 2015
This summer, President Obama addressed the 106th NAACP convention...
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November 10, 2015
November 10, 2015 — Former fellow and TV news producer Richard N. Kaplan returned to the Shorenstein Center to discuss the 2016 election, including the...
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November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015 — A panel of experts discussed the benefits and drawbacks of polling at the Shorenstein Center, continuing the conversation sparked by...
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November 5, 2015
November 5, 2015 – Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer for The New Yorker, delivered the...
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October 23, 2015
Panelists:
Brent Colburn, Fellow, Institute of Politics; former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs); Assistant Secretary for Public...