Eight major technology companies just rolled out a website demanding reform of government surveillance policies. The website, titled “Reform Government Surveillance”, is a response to the series of scandals of the past summer surrounding NSA surveillance tactics and reach. The dramatic launch of the page is already receiving attention from the press, but the long-term strategy of … Read more
The practice of hiring undergraduates to help in the teaching of other undergraduates is an ingrained practice at Harvard, and also a well-kept secret. For over 40 years, these “course assistants” have led sections, graded assignments, and held office hours. With the rapid increase in the number of students studying quantitative fields such as computer … Read more
We as Harvard College students are on an amazing jaunt of achievement, but too often we fail to stop and question what about the College is aiding or hindering us in this pursuit. And for those on the outside of Harvard’s bubble, let me let you into a now better understood secret: Harvard’s letter grading … Read more
Editor’s note: For another perspective, check out staff writer’s Andrew Ma’s article, “Europe’s Decline.” If the 19th Century is known for European hegemony, the 20th Century is known for European division. For decades, the continent served as a center of multilateral conflict, ethnic tension, and wildly divergent foreign policies and ideology. Now, however, for the … Read more
Editor’s note: For another perspective, check out staff writer Nicholas Bonstow’s article, “Europe’s New Rise.” Nowadays, when we think of the UN, we think of old Westerners sitting at a table, working out issues for some unfortunate and unrelated country that direly needs foreign aid. A general sense of Eurocentrism permeates these images of international … Read more
Harvard Political Review: What school districts do you see as models for improving American schools? Randi Weingarten: We just created a prize called “Solution-Driven Unionism,” which is about not just recognizing good work, but encouraging risk-taking to try to do new things that we think are best practices for other schools. Thirty-nine public high schools … Read more
Editor’s note: For another perspective, check out staff writer’s Andrew Ma’s article, “Europe’s Decline.” If the 19th Century is known for European hegemony, the 20th Century is known for European division. For decades, the continent served as a center of multilateral conflict, ethnic tension, and wildly divergent foreign policies and ideology. Now, however, for the … Read more
Editor’s note: For another perspective, check out staff writer Nicholas Bonstow’s article, “Europe’s New Rise.” Nowadays, when we think of the UN, we think of old Westerners sitting at a table, working out issues for some unfortunate and unrelated country that direly needs foreign aid. A general sense of Eurocentrism permeates these images of international … Read more
Dear Readers, A few weeks ago, New York Times op-ed columnist and former executive editor Bill Keller proclaimed in the headline of one of his pieces that this is the “Golden Age of News.” He described the plethora of news outlets available at this time, using his morning routine of reading the Wall Street Journal, … Read more
Violence, lawlessness, and impunity—these words are common in the international vocabulary that surrounds the Central African Republic. As one of the least-developed countries in the world, this former French colony of Ubangi-Shari, sitting between the DRC, Sudan, and Chad, had been crippled by three decades of military misrule until the establishment of civilian government in … Read more