President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Exceptionalism with a ...
President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Exceptionalism with a view | MIT Sloan ...
MIT Sloan Professor Leigh Hafrey discusses President Obama's second inaugural address.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Recorded Feb. 13, 2013
Impact of the Presidential Election on Tax and Health Policy
Impact of the Presidential Election on Tax and Health Policy
Andrea Louise Campbell, MIT professor of political science, is studying the impact that the presidential election will have on tax policy, health policy, Social Security, Medicare and health insurance. On Oct. 3, 2012, Campbell offered her thoughts on taxes and health ...
Future of the Euro: Threats and Opportunities
Future of the Euro: Threats and Opportunities
A conversation with Marco Mazzucchelli on the future of the euro. This video was taped on 4/23/2012. Marco Mazzucchelli is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School and the former Depty CEO-Global Head of Banking at RBS Global Banking & Markets David Singer is ...
Profile: Andrea Campbell
Profile: Andrea Campbell
Andrea Campbell’s core research concerns resemble a list of hot-button political issues pulled straight from the 2012 presidential campaign: Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, taxation.
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy ...
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the ...
Starr Forum: Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis May 07, 2012 http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_050712_galbraith.html About The Speakers: James Galbraith is professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, ...
Future of the Euro: Threats and Opportunities
Future of the Euro: Threats and Opportunities
A conversation with Marco Mazzucchelli on the future of the European Union currency.
Revisiting Port Huron
Revisiting Port Huron
April 11, 2012The Port Huron Statement, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, was the manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society and a foundational text of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, the statement’s primary author, joins Noam Chomsky, ...
A Farewell to Geopolitics: American Grand Strategy for the ...
A Farewell to Geopolitics: American Grand Strategy for the New Era
On March 6, 2012, MIT Political Science Professor Stephen Van Evera offered his thoughts on American grand strategy for the new era.
Faculty Forum Online: Homeland Security
Faculty Forum Online: Homeland Security
National security in an age of massive movements of people across borders is a universal concern that involves complex issues. While borders have different characteristics and challenges, there are areas of commonality. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of crossings are not problematic, ...
Just Make It
MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series: Just Make It
Regina DuganKaigham Gabriel
MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect. Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/racialpolarization-0120.html
Profile: Jens Hainmueller
Profile: Jens Hainmueller
Jens Hainmueller, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, discusses his current research.
Mind, Hand, World
Mind, Hand, World: The MIT Center for International Studies
The MIT Center for International Studies undertakes research, teaching, international education, and public and policy engagement on a broad range of global issues.
Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect.
Foreign Policy and the next U.S. administration
Foreign Policy and the next U.S. administration
MIT scholars Barry Posen, Taylor Fravel, and Carol Saivetz are participating in a roundtable discussion on foreign policy and the next U.S. administration. This discussion is the first in a series of forward-thinking talks on pressing global issues in which MIT ...
Religion and American Politics
Religion and American Politics
Dr. Alan Wolfe, SM '56, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College Description: Alan Wolfe vigorously denies that a theocracy is rising in the United States. In his richly detailed tour of the nation's current Christian ...
Human Rights and the US State Department
Human Rights and the US State Department
05/07/2003 7:00 PM John Shattuck, Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights; the Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Description: Ambassador Shattuck provides insights from his experiences as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the ...