For college freshmen, August is move-in season. New comforter and desk lamp in tow, students move into the communities they have prepared for, and in some cases desperately envisioned, throughout their high school careers. Yet, after they are dropped off and left to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, students frequently lose their sense … Read more
Earlier this summer, a force of approximately ten militants attacked Pakistan’s Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. The death toll from the attack, including the ten attackers, was approximately 38. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it was a response to the death of one of their leaders during an American … Read more
Has the time finally come for peace? This is the question Colombians are asking themselves as peace talks are being held in Havana, Cuba between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a militant Marxist rebel group responsible for a fifty-year long civil war, which resulted in generations of Colombians growing … Read more
This is the third installment of the Harvard Political Review‘s interview series with Massachusetts’s candidates for governor. Democrat Steve Grossman currently serves as the commonwealth’s treasurer. Harvard Political Review: What’s your diagnosis of the current state of Massachusetts: the good, the bad, the ugly? Steve Grossman: I’m an optimist about the future of this state, as … Read more
As the world has reeled from the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, and the continuing aftershocks it has had on the world, some commentary on the shoot-down of the flight has focused on the less than stellar record of the United States regarding the safety of foreign civilian airliners in combat zones. In 1988, … Read more
WASHINGTON—In a press conference this Monday, President Obama admitted to being deeply confused by the mixed signals he was receiving from Congress during the most recent negotiations surrounding immigration reform. “First they try to sue me for doing things my way, then they tell me to work things out on my own. It’s like we’re … Read more
A brand new Whole Foods at the end of the street. High-rise condos built alongside subsidized housing projects. Groundbreaking for a mega athletic stadium in the neighborhood. Each of these new additions to low-income and previously neglected neighborhoods trigger claims about urban policy’s latest hot topic: gentrification. Though multiple definitions are used to describe this … Read more
Under a portrait of Chairman Mao in Xi’an, home to the Terracotta Warriors and capital of thirteen Chinese dynasties, a revolution is taking place. Over the course of three weeks, I witnessed Chinese citizens chatting loudly over dinner and wine, the same time-tested food culture, but the topics of discussion were notably different from before. … Read more
On the eve of Argentina’s eighth default, the HPR’s Ignacio Sabate published an article questioning whether history was repeating itself in Argentina. Sabate, like countless writers before him, observed that Argentina’s long history of financial troubles could be proof that the country still “has not learned its lesson.” This portrayal of Argentina appeals to our … Read more