If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Climate change, public education, presidential campaigns…and electric guitars? No topic is off limits for Davis Guggenheim, critically acclaimed filmmaker and documentarian behind such influential films as An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman”, and It Might Get Loud. His works have changed the course of the national...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Please join the Institute of Politics in welcoming U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to campus for an armchair conversation with Institute of Politics Director David Axelrod. Secretary Pritzker has served as the 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce since being sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on June 26, 2013. As Secretary...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ta-Nehisi Coates reignited a national conversation over reparations for African Americans with his 16,000-word cover story for the June issue of The Atlantic. The Case for Reparations argues that long after slavery ended, decades of racist policies and deliberate injustices – from Jim Crow to redlining – have continued to...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Making of the Peace Corps Series - Conflict & Change: The Challenges of Politics and Power, led by Jaime Price, Executive Director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, with special guest William Josephson, Special Advisor to the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Making of the Peace Corps Series - Peacemaking & Program Design: The Challenge of Social Innovation, led by Jaime Price, Executive Director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, with special guest William Josephson, Special Advisor to the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.