As the push for fossil fuel divestment gains momentum across the country, most institutional decision makers are resisting the call to sell off investments in coal and petroleum (though there have been several brave exceptions). Harvard President Drew Faust wrote an open letter last week reaffirming her administration’s position against divestment and promoting weaker routes … Read more
No less than one hundred and sixty thousand hectares of land in Northern Columbia are treeless due to neighboring coal mines, Freddy Lozano from the Colombian National Union of Workers in the Coal Industry told me last weekend. In West Virginia, three-fourths of the water is unfit to swim in due to heavy metal poisoning. … Read more
BARI, Italy — 6 p.m. in the traffic-packed Italian city streets, all lit up in the fervent wait for Christmas. I’m sitting on the bus, the computer on my lap and earphones plugged in tight enough to cover the sound of two old ladies loudly arguing over whether cucumbers have gotten cheaper than radishes. As … Read more
India, the world’s largest democracy, is currently gripped by election fever. Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are set to win big, as popularity for the current governing party, the Indian National Congress (INC), is in steep decline. Yet, in the complex Indian political landscape, nothing is so simple. We will not know … Read more
Mike Huckabee served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 through 2007. He spoke with the Harvard Political Review during his fellowship at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Harvard Political Review: Healthcare reform is at the center of America’s political conversation today. In 2005 you published a book entitled, Quit Digging Your Grave With … Read more
It was 3 a.m. on April 5 when my parents called me from Afghanistan. Their first words were, “We voted today.” I could hear the excitement in their voices and the hope in the way they talked about the election. Just like my family, for many Afghans April 5, 2014 was the biggest day of … Read more
This is not an appeal. This is a memorandum; it is a statement to make note of facts that have been forgotten, or ignored. While this could have been a story about my own experience in the Rwandan Genocide, I do not want my words to be dismissed as another African testimony of the sort … Read more
It was 3 a.m. on April 5 when my parents called me from Afghanistan. Their first words were, “We voted today.” I could hear the excitement in their voices and the hope in the way they talked about the election. Just like my family, for many Afghans April 5, 2014 was the biggest day of … Read more
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent time in office has not been without excitement. In addition to dismissing half of his cabinet during a corruption scandal in late 2013, Erdogan and his regime are now under close international scrutiny for preparing a “false flag operation,” an operation organized by one country under the guise of another. … Read more
Even those unfamiliar with the genre can recognize that rap and hip-hop are not what they used to be. A pre-2005 hip-hop or rap hit can be easily distinguished from a track released in the past decade, and artists who have gotten into the game within the last ten years bear little similarity to what … Read more