Belfer Center Event Photos: March 29 – April 15

A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials issued a statement Monday saying that “there is no factual basis” for President Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two years ago this week, President Trump signed an executive order banning travelers from a number of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The fallout has been dire.

Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, Belfer Center-based Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will receive the prestigious 2019 Moynihan Prize in Social Science and Public Policy, the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) announced today. The award will be presented at an award ceremony in Washington, D.C. in October. 

The 2018 Moynihan Prize recipient was John P. Holdren, Co-Director of the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is culpable in the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an appraisal that poses challenges to a White House intent on maintaining a close relationship with the kingdom.

Samantha Power reviews Susan Jacoby's book Why Baseball Matters (Yale University Press, 2018).

"Belfer Center Newsmakers" highlights members of the Belfer Center community who have been featured recently in the news.

Samantha Power writes that a year of insults, chaos and falsehoods has brought about a precipitous drop in the international standing of the United States. She argues that Mike Pompeo, President Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, can't change the president, but he can get back to trying to solve problems in the real world.

In this chapter from Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America (HarperCollins, 2018), Samantha Power argues that Americans need to pay more attention
to the ability of adversaries to subvert domestic democratic processes by aiming falsehoods at a ripe subset of the population—and warns that this is a concern beyond election cycles.