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Facebook has created it own Supreme Court, yes you heard it right, and this Supreme Court will decide in a matter of days if Donald Trump can be let back in. To talk to us about how this body came to be, what a Harvard professor’s college friendships have to do with it, how they managed to get Nobel Prize winners and what this major decision will m…
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When COVID hit, it sent a chilling message to those who have lived through the HIV epidemic -- the last big one in the US -- and know very well what can happen when governments ignore people in a health crisis and when poor countries can't afford the treatment. I’ll give you a hint. By the end of 2019, the global death toll from AIDS was about 33 m…
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Dr Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and one of the most important voices on COVID-19, lets us know how optimistic we can be, what kind of summer we should be expecting and how high of a risk there is for a variant to become so strong that it makes the current vaccines useless.…
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For all the controversy about China’s relationship with the West, you cannot deny two things: it involves everything from nuclear weapons to climate change, and the stakes -- for the world -- are high. There is no one better to discuss this with than Harvard’s master of international relations, Joseph Nye. His theory of soft power shaped how both C…
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It has been a little over a year since we started to grapple with the pandemic. Just as we were celebrating the incredible scientific efforts that brought us the vaccines, we now see that the virus is mutating into new variants. These variants are making the virus spread faster, and there is talk that they could make these much-awaited vaccines ine…
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Anand Menon knows Brexit through and through. He is the director of The UK in a Changing Europe and professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King’s College London. In this episode, he wonderfully breaks down what the UK has gotten itself into, why an agreement was so hard to reach and who came out as the winner of Brexit.…
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Dr. Michael Mina is a Harvard epidemiologist and immunologist. When the pandemic hit, he put aside all of his previous work to fight the virus. Since he has developed a strategy to stop the pandemic and is consulting governments to implement it. The strategy does not focus on the vaccine but on easy to produce, and even easier to use, paper strip r…
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Chasten Buttigieg, a beloved educator, rose to public fame when his husband - Pete Buttiegieg - became the first openly gay major presidential candidate. At first, Chasten, who is in his early 30s, did not think he'd fit in political circles. However he had a great deal to share with the American people, and I am not just talking about his great se…
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To help us understand the final stretch of the presidential race and what to expect on election week, we sit down with Margaret Talev. Talev is the White House & politics editor at Axios, a CNN political analyst, and a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer; so in other words we could’t be in better hands!بقلم The Dive Media
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Voting in America is very difficult, from registering, staying registered to having the vote ultimately counted. Renowned voting rights activists and experts LaTosha Brown and Tova Wang explain how millions of Americans are left out of voting and what we can do about it.بقلم The Dive Media
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Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory where she researches malign narratives online. She has advised Congress, the State Department and many other institutions. She also writes for the Atlantic, Wired and many other publications.بقلم The Dive Media
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Megan Greene is a renowned economist who has gained worldwide attention, correctly predicting Greece's financial crisis. She has advised central banks and governments in the US, Europe, and Japan. In this episode, she breaks down why this deal is historic and what is so unique about it.بقلم The Dive Media
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Dr. Dan Barouch is leading Harvard's efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine together with Johnson and Johnson. In today’s conversation, we sat down to talk about what this journey has been like, how we get to the finish line, and when we will finally get a vaccine.بقلم Zoja Surroi & Judd Olanoff
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Sharon Block directs the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, which focuses on the world of work and its impacts on society. She has had a long career in public service, including eight years working for the Obama White House. In this episode, she talks about the workers who had to choose between losing their job and being exposing…
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Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning historian whose work focuses on human rights and social movements. He teaches at Harvard Kennedy School and was also a founding member of President Obama’s LGBT Leadership Council. In this episode, he discusses the importance of this moment, activism in times of social media and why this is a protest lik…
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Health Economist Amitabh Chandra is a Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Chandra is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors. Now, he discusses the challenges of supplying and…
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