To understand national security is to understand the nature of threat, and how threat evolves and emerges in a fast-paced world. Political influences on technology, demographics, culture, and identity all play a role in how voters comprehend threat. In a ...

The interference by the Russian Government in the 2016 election stunned many Americans and international observers. But election meddling is an old game, played by adversaries and allies alike over the course of human history. We will strive to understand ...

A Conversation with Jessica Browning National Co-Chair, College Republican National Committee David Hogg Co-Founder, March for Our Lives Teddy Landis '20 Co-Founder, Harvard Votes Challenge Student Chair, Harvard Public Opinion Project Johnathan Rang ...

This session will cover a history of women in politics and a review of where we are today in federal, state, local and even international arenas. We will discuss how the current environment in DC is affecting elections in the states and challenging for wo ...

Taking a deep dive approach, we will evaluate the issues that are driving the conversation in 2018: immigration, economic crisis, health care, the opioid epidemic, the Women’s March, #MeToo, the March for our Lives, and other events and issues of the day- ...

Social media and the use of the Internet influence everything in our life. How has the rise of technology and new forms of communication directly impacted women in campaigns, from many perspectives: candidate, operative and voter. Also, how does the cultu ...

How is the media influencing how we perceive women candidates and their campaigns? Does fake news disproportionately affect women running for office? As the role of media is changing and coming under fire, traditional means of communication are being scru ...

What do the conditions look like for women running for office in other parts of the world? Are there lessons to be learned from states across the seas? What country is most inspiring? What are the similarities and differences between the United States and ...

As the workforce changes (AI, new technologies, automation), what impact does this have on women in office and deciding public policy? From the Boardroom to the shop floor to the tech startup to the halls of Congress – all the economic factors that make w ...

Over the past two decades, there has been an explosive increase in the number of political hostage-takings throughout the world. Robert C. O'Brien, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs will give us a sobering look inside the fight to fr ...