Nicholas P. Fandos
Elizabeth Warren's Harvard Ties Pay Off
In an unprecedented show of support, Harvard employees have combined to donate more than $227,000 to Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for the Massachusetts’s junior U.S. Senate seat since last September, helping to make their colleague the best-financed congressional candidate in the country.
Harvard Professor Finds 'New Gospel'
A piece of papyrus, no bigger than the palm of a hand, provides the earliest and most definitive evidence yet that some early Christians believed Jesus was married, Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen L. King announced earlier today.
Warren Struggles in Home Stretch
Democratic political consultants and professors said that the Harvard Law School professor still faces the same uphill battle that has beguiled her campaign since its earliest days.
Local Primaries Yield Expected Results
Former Marine and technology executive Sean Bielat and former Middlesex County assistant district attorney Joseph P. Kennedy III will face off for the chance to represent Massachusetts’ Fourth Congressional District and fill the seat held for decades by retiring Congressman Barney Frank ’61-’62.
At DNC, Harvard Affiliates Speak, Intern, and Cheer
From Michelle Obama and Deval Patrick ’78, who spoke Tuesday, to Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday, to President Obama on Thursday, the political stage—draped in Democratic blue—has no shortage of crimson.
Warren Addresses Nation at DNC
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren reintroduced herself as the unlikely U.S. Senate hopeful who rose from the lower crust of the middle class to the protect American consumers in Washington.
Republicans Vie For Spot in Fifth Congressional District
Three Republican candidates will go head to head Thursday, Sept. 6 for a chance to take on 36-year incumbent Democratic Congressman Edward J. Markey, in the newly-reconfigured Fifth Congressional District this November.
Republicans Compete to Challenge Joseph P. Kennedy III
In what has been one of the most competitive Massachusetts primaries of the 2012 election season, Republicans Sean Bielat, Elizabeth Childs, and David L. Steinhof will face off Thursday, Sept. 6 in the GOP primary.
Harvard Affiliates Attend Republican Convention
When former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney officially accepts the Republican nomination for the presidency tonight in Tampa, thousands of delegates ...
Warren Outraises Brown in Latest Filing Period
Warren's race total is a staggering $27.7 million, a figure larger than that of any other congressional campaign in the country. Brown’s own pace—$20.9 million raised since last autumn—is second only his Democratic opponent nationally.
IOP Kicks Off Programming During Republican Convention
The IOP kicked off its convention program with Politics & The Media: Bridging The Divide In The 2012 Election, a forum co-hosted with Bloomberg News and the University of Southern California on Sunday afternoon.
Brown Says Court Decision Was Meant To Help Warren
Scott Brown charged this week that a lawsuit which prompted Massachusetts to send voter registration forms to thousands of welfare recipients was intended by the group that brought the suit to aid Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign.
Sunstein To Return to HLS from D.C.
Cass R. Sunstein '75 will return to Harvard Law School in August after a three-year stint as President Barack Obama's regulatory chief, White House and Law School officials announced Friday.
Scott Brown Raises $5 Million in 2nd Quarter
U.S. Senator Scott Brown's campaign for reelection brought in roughly $5 million in political donations during the second quarter of 2012—nearly $1.6 million more than the Republican raised in the first quarter—his campaign announced Wednesday evening.
Warren Campaign Raises $8.67 Million, Sets New Race High
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign raised $8.67 million in the second quarter of 2012, blowing past her first quarter total and setting a new high-water mark for quarterly fundraising in Massachusetts’ race for U.S. Senate, her campaign announced Monday.
