This February, the White House announced a further one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for medium-sized employers to provide health insurance for their employees. The ACA has been the source of a great deal of controversy ever since its passage in 2010 but, following this latest delay, some experts are beginning to doubt … Read more
Every time I got into an Ivy League school, I allowed myself an apple. Plus 90 calories. * * * The beautiful Kate Upton, airbrushed to perfection on the cover of Vogue, never bothered me. Nor did the ubiquitous tabloid articles about how thin Mary Kate Olson was getting. I never stared naked at my … Read more
We are often reminded—by friends, relatives, and even the media—that the four years of college are the best years of our lives. Perhaps I was naïve at the time, back in the fall of 2010, but I certainly believed in this truism when I started at Harvard. Four years later, after countless sleepless nights, term … Read more
Wife, mother, and grandmother, a teacher, advocate, and senator, Elizabeth Warren has adopted all of these labels and more over the years, as documented in her autobiography A Fighting Chance. At times funny, and at others somber, A Fighting Chance tells Warren’s story against a backdrop of current events and a heavy dose of economic … Read more
“No, you can’t touch my hair.” Last month, a page on the social networking and blogging site Tumblr featuring pictures of black Harvard students holding whiteboards exploded in national media outlets. The page, a project of the “I, Too, Am Harvard” campaign, cast in stark relief some of the off-hand, often unintentional, racialized remarks and behaviors black students encounter on Harvard’s campus. From assertions … Read more
Despite threats from the Taliban and fears of corruption, Afghanistan’s elections went forward without significant incident on April 5. With President Hamid Karzai constitutionally barred from seeking reelection, new candidates such as Abdullah Abdullah, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, and Zalmai Rassoul have been jockeying for position over the past several months. The election and ensuing transfer … Read more
Congressman Peter King (R-NY2) currently serves as a member of the Homeland Security Committee and as Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Harvard Political Review: What do you currently think is the greatest threat to homeland security? Peter King: I think part of it is complacency. We’ve gone 12 years without a successful … Read more
In an article I wrote a few days ago, I mentioned that Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had blocked Twitter and YouTube. I sent my article to a friend from Turkey, and he sent me a video of one of the Prime Minister’s speeches on March 27. According to him, this video was the … Read more
It’s November 6, 2012—Election Day. And it’s an important one: across the country, people are going to the polls to do their civic duty and make their voices heard on issues ranging from the Affordable Care Act to nuclear proliferation in Iran. But, according to a study done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, certain … Read more
Discussed in this essay: Non-Stop, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Universal Pictures; 2014) Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them, by John Mueller and Mark Stewart (Simon & Schuster; 2006) Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Approach to Risk Analysis, by the National Research Council (The … Read more