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Student leaders at the Institute of Politics lauded the IOP’s decision to remove U.S. Representative Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) from its Senior Advisory Committee on Tuesday. Stefanik’s removal was announced in a letter penned by Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf to members of the committee on Tuesday morning. More than 750 Harvard affiliates signed a petition last week urging the IOP to sever ties with Stefanik for “improperly challenging” the congre...

Fighting food insecurity during a global pandemic Jessica Fanzo, of JHUs Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, looks at the growing crisis and ways to address it Credit: Getty Images Jan 6, 2021 As the COVID-19 pandemic cripples food systems worldwide, governments must evolve and cooperate to heal the crisis, Johns Hopkins Professor Jessica Fanzo argues in a recent Fanzo, who directs the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins, lays out the harsh facts: An estimated 130 mil...

  To all Oregonians: Throughout this pandemic, I’ve been in touch people who fish for a living up and down our coast about the challenges their businesses are facing. I’m grateful to Oregon’s coastal communities for all of the insights they’ve shared with me this year.  They’ve fueled my efforts to push congressional leaders to successfully include emergency assistance for our fishing sector in coronavirus relief legislation, and inspired my request that the Government Accountabilit...

Credits: Image: Dominick Reuter Next image Dava Newman SM ’89, SM ’89, PhD ’92, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics whose groundbreaking work has advanced human performance in space with the goal of interplanetary reach, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1, 2021. “Leading the legendary Media Lab is a dream for me, and I can’t wait to help write the next chapter of this uniquely creative, impactful, compa...

comments This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. Amid swelling calls to reduce the nations incarceration rates in light of the ongoing pandemic, The Marshall Project and  The Associated Press released a new analysis Friday finding that one in five state and federal prisoners has tested positive for COVID-19. That rate is "more than four times as high as the genera...

Native people send prayers, protections and congratulations for Interior nominee Deb Haaland Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Republic © Courtesy of Rep. Deb Haalands office Rep. Deb Haaland President-elect Joe Biden introduced Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., as his nominee for Interior Secretary on Saturday. If she’s confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will be the first Native American to hold a cabinet position. Accolades from tribal leaders, Haaland’s House seatmates and senators c...

New Leadership for City of St. Louis Boards of Health and Hospitals The Boards of Health and Hospitals are established by the St. Louis City Charter. The 13 members of the advisory boards are appointed by the mayor.  December 17, 2020 | 2 min reading time At its December 17, 2020, board meeting the City of St. Louis Boards of Health and Hospitals announced the unanimous selection of Rhonda Belue, PhD as its new Board Chairperson. BeLue has served on the board since March 2017 and succeeds Dr. ...

Sunday, December 13, 2020 | Sacramento, CA In this July 9, 2020, file photo, people hold up a banner while listening to a news conference outside San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File By Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters In July, amid an epidemic of coronavirus cases, California’s corrections agency rolled out early-release programs touted as a solution to protect in...

Burkina Faso and Thailand achieving UHC for Sexual and Reproductive Health Trakanphurtphon Hospital 11 December 2020 How are countries integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights into Universal Health Coverage – and why does this mean a healthier world for all? When sexual and reproductive health services are integrated into universal health coverage, all people, everywhere, can get the quality care they need without financial hardship. “ Every individual on the planet ha...

Scientific relationship with the european union, they havent even started on it. thats why theres trouble brewing on the european front as well as the domestic front. >> what do you think of the lessons for american politics? you really now -- you have the tories, the populist national party, the left is trying to figure out what it does. what did you hear that democrats should know about? >> if you confuse your own twittersphere with the real world, youre in trouble. if your policy program is i...