Colin Diersing, Interviews Editor, sits down with Ana Navarro to discuss what went wrong for the Republican Party in the 2012 election and the ways in which the Republican Party would be able to expand its Latino base. You can access additional content by subscribing to our YouTube channel and visiting our iTunes page. Interview by Colin Diersing … Read more
America’s war in Afghanistan began in 1979 — not 2001 — when we supported the mujahedeen in resisting the Soviet invasion. When the Cold War ended in 1991, we left Afghanistan. We had successfully stopped communism’s spread, and the American public was understandably tired of spending lives and money in this faraway land. We are … Read more
America’s war in Afghanistan began in 1979 — not 2001 — when we supported the mujahedeen in resisting the Soviet invasion. When the Cold War ended in 1991, we left Afghanistan. We had successfully stopped communism’s spread, and the American public was understandably tired of spending lives and money in this faraway land. We are … Read more
One of my friends recently suggested to me Neil Shea’s Dispatches series over at The American Scholar, where the final installment was published about two weeks ago. Written over a period of two years while Shea was on assignment in Afghanistan freelancing for a number of different publications, including Stars and Stripes and The American Scholar, the stories … Read more
Seth Reiss is the head writer for The Onion, the popular satirical news publication whose website receives over 7.5 million unique visitors per month and whose print circulation numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Harvard Political Review: Can satire have an effect on politics, and have you seen this with The Onion? Seth Reiss: I … Read more
Since the Anti-Federalist papers of 1787-88, politicians have criticized one of the quirkiest Constitutional provisions, the Electoral College. Following President Obama’s 2012 victory, Republicans in five states continued this tradition by proposing a new method to allocate their state’s electoral votes. Instead of “winner take all,” where the winner of a state’s popular vote receives … Read more
This reflection was written by a member of the HPR Editorial Board who wished to write anonymously. There’s always a lot to think about when people die, and when people kill. I thought first of friends, and then of the victims I didn’t know. Then of those who knew people running, and then of those … Read more
Across campus, the country, and the world, people stopped their daily routines to watch the aftermath of the horrifying attack in Copley Square yesterday. On this uniquely Boston day, Harvard students could feel a palpable level of uncertainty and anxiety. List-serve emails warning students of suspicious packages all around Cambridge, jammed phone lines thwarting attempts to … Read more
In the midst of all the media coverage of North Korea, it may seem that there would be little more room for a clash between the press and the Democratic People’s Republic. Yet it was recently revealed that three BBC reporters joined a group of 10 students from the London School of Economics without the … Read more
Senator Richard Lugar represented Indiana from 1977 to 2013 as a United States Senator. He served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985-1987 and from 2003-2007. Senator Lugar left the Senate this past January after losing a primary election. He plans to accept positions at Georgetown University, Indiana University, and the … Read more