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Forward Fest public conversation series with faculty experts and alumni continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Dec. 15, 2020 5:01 p.m. Forward Fest is a virtual public conversation series that aims to spark dialogue across the global Princeton community — students, faculty, staff, alumni and other interested thinkers — to engage with and explore big ideas and their infinite possibilities for shaping the future. The next Forward Fest t...

Over it. this is how its done. these witnesses now have not just the democrats in the senate looking for them, but 71% of the american public looking for them. >> yeah, nicole. i think thats the biggest impeachment-related number one way or another, that weve seen anywhere in this process. everything else about impeachment has hovered around that 50/50 mark. thats part of the reason both parties are so dug in. whats striking about that number being what it is, democrats have not in any sort of u...

Ambitions are a marked change her ideas of forward thinking as is the gender balance of her team it is a team with almost all levels as many women as men only one woman away from gender balance. this shows. this shows we have made real progress but also that we still have to do more on the lines primary focus is on climate change at the upcoming international climate meeting in madrid this december she plans to present a european green deal which aims to make europe the 1st climate neutral conti...

>> bob dole and mitt romney who said you know what? they were not great candidates. nobody said its because they are a man. >> i agree. there is a bit of an institutional lag behind this and maybe we are more forward thinking as society than in sort of the institution. so i do think there is -- its indisputable there is sexism. >> martha: i dont agree. >> remember couldnt read the first sentence -- >> but wait, having a woman on the court. >> this is important to highlight because the only perso...

Right now under donald trump, which depending on his mood could be circa 1938, 1955, and then you have michelle obama and youre right back to a vision of america thats more inclusive, thats more forward-thinking. im thinking as a political writer, you know, can her tour and her book help keep people energized after the midterms? and i think that would be a really great use of her talents. >> phil, i want to read you a quote from the memoir, her distaste of the current political climate. ive lain...

Americans. this should be deemed absolutely unacceptable. heres probably the most startling statistic. zero, thats how many arrests have been made all these shootings over the weekend. zero that means these criminals that over 70 people shot. over a dozen people killed. no one has been arrested. and so its the same people committing the same crimes. and i want to make this perfectly clear. most chicagoens are law abiding, hard-working, gritty, forward-thinking, creative people. most chicagoens a...

Viewership that needs to change and be more forward-thinking. is this about moving with the generation? >> well, the question for the mar do murdochs is where does the bottom line stop and the questions about the culture begin. if youre james murdoch, you really think that you need to clean up the culture there. after roger ailes was fired last summer, they said that they were cleaning house. this was a new environment that they were creating and women would never really be disrespected in the w...

Year, with five in the first few months. >> thats right. so many people hooked on heroin, overdosing on heroin because its cheap, and it is so powerful. so you started this program that you guys are calling the angel initiative. explain what it is. >> well, its three pronged. its, you know, simplistic in one way, and you know, its been viewed as kind of forward thinking. but we dont think in that vein. first step is that we want to petition legislation to earmark some of the funds we get from ad...

Pointed remarks to republicans and the nra about guns. >> i think were better than this and smart ere than this and we need to stand up to the nra and the gun manufacturers behind all of this intimidation and political -- opposition to anything that will work. >> clinton took questions at the event and another event scheduled in just an hour from now coming up for her. meanwhile, a bloomberg politics group shedding light on voters feelg about the democratic presidential candidates and its good n...

Violent, yes, the national media comes and the world pays attention but without that a lot of times the world does not pay attention but then it becomes hard -- i wonder if you agree. hard to create a broad coalition of national sympathy for your position when youre being violent in that way toward property. >> oh, absolutely. >> toward your community and the police so you get the attention but then you lose peoples sympathy, so youre taking one step forward perhaps and three steps back. >> the ...