Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information, engage in political discourse public and private, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are, in some ways, quite distinct from what […]

Join us for a conversation with Tara Westover, author and Shorenstein Center A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, and Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs. You can find more information about the event, and the live stream here. Tara Westover is the author of Educated, and current A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at

What began six years ago as an environmentalist youth resistance in the heart of Istanbul marked a sharp autocratic turn for Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ever since then, his moves resulted in subordinating journalism and the judiciary; driving wedges into the opposition; brutally crushing dissent; profiting from one crisis to another; and, currently, war.

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. The spread of hate speech and violent conduct. The disinformation problem and foreign election interference. Alleged suppression of political speech. Persistent breaches of public trust. These and countless other incidents have led

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. In recent months, leading U.S. politicians including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham have raised questions about the monopoly power of internet platform firms like Facebook and Google. But is it

Join us for a conversation on careers in public service with Shorenstein Center fellow Kathy Pham, and executive director Setti Warren. Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and researcher on ethics and technology. She has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.

Join us for Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America, a lecture by April De Simone and Katie Swenson, moderated by Miriam Aschkenasy, Program Manager, Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability. Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America is an explorative and visioning framework for addressing systemic

Join us for a discussion with Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace, authors of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead,” moderated by Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs.   There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women

The HKS Journal of Hispanic Policy invites you to Democracy and the New American Economy, a conversation about opportunities to expand informed civic engagement in our democratic process as a nation, with Henry Ramos (MPA ’86) and LaTosha Brown (Fall 2019 IOP Fellow). Moderated by Richard Parker and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics