Thomas Menino served as Boston’s mayor from 1993 through January 2014. He spoke with the Harvard Political Review about new challenges facing mayors in the 21st century. Harvard Political Review: How do you feel that the institution of the mayor has evolved in the 21st century? Thomas Menino: Mayors for a long time depended on the federal … Read more
Selina Wang attends the Women’s Week 2014 kick-off event “Femme Fest” at Ticknor Lounge to find out what students think is the significance of Women’s Week. You can access additional content by subscribing to our YouTube channel and visiting our iTunes page. Filming by Johanna Lee Editing by Joe Choe and Selina Wang Music by Dylan Perese
Six glass towers. Six for the six concentration camps constructed in Poland, their names engraved on the pathway that guides visitors through the towers. Majdanek, Treblinka. Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec. Six for the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. And at night, light shines up from the bottom of the towers to illuminate the … Read more
Music is the artistic form of protest. During the American Civil War, soldiers sang the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Civil right activists sang “We Shall Overcome” as they held hands in non-violent protest. And in the late seventies, when the American eye turned away from the struggles of the inner city, the street anthem … Read more
On Monday, March 10, a Russian Soyuz vehicle currently docked with the International Space Station is due to land in Kazakhstan with three passengers onboard. One of those three, Colonel Michael Hopkins, is an American astronaut that has been aboard the orbiting laboratory since September of last year. Under normal circumstances this would be a … Read more
The college application process is a labyrinth of forms, letters, and essays: a puzzle just as complicated as a Rubik’s Cube. Now, imagine seeing everyone around you receiving personalized instructions on how to solve the puzzle, except you. This was the experience of three recent college applicants. They were all undocumented immigrants at the time.For many … Read more
Too often we are caught up in the geopolitics of the Syrian conflict: which countries are supporting whom, how do we navigate the complex sub-groups constituting the “rebels,” how concerned should we be with al-Qaeda and ISIS gaining influence, why did Geneva II fail to produce any significant results, and so forth. We forget that … Read more
In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof called on scholars, particularly social scientists, to decode their cryptic disciplinary tongues and reenter the political debate. Where in the Kennedy era stood a “brain trust” of Harvard faculty at the center of policymaking, he argues, one now finds some economists and virtually no other academics. … Read more
Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D, MA-5) discusses public service, congressional gridlock, and efforts to combat gender inequities in the workforce. Harvard Political Review: What can you do to improve the dialogue in Congress? Rep. Katherine Clark: There’s a complicated answer to that. I see my role as using the strength of this district, using the values that we have … Read more
Kader was a student at a French university in Paris in 1961. Though we know little about him, it is possible that he was the French-born son of an Algerian immigrant who had moved to France after having served for the French army in one of the world wars. Kader’s life was not easy: he … Read more