“MIXED MESSAGE? Obama strikes bipartisan tone — but vows exec action” — Fox News “OBAMA REACHES OUT” — MSNBC “Obama to Voters: ‘I hear you.’” — CNN The night after the 2014 midterm elections, the big three cable news networks headlined their websites with stories of President Obama’s speech concerning the previous night’s events. The headlines … Read more
On October 17th, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen visited Boston in the midst of stock market turmoil and questions of monetary policy. Instead of delivering a speech on those more conventional topics, Yellen dedicated her entire thirty minutes at the podium to sounding the proverbial alarm on income inequality. In perhaps her most controversial speech as a public official, … Read more
This July, a New York Times investigation uncovered that 129 inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City had suffered “serious injuries”—injuries so severe that the jail’s doctors could not treat them—at the hands of corrections officers, the people who are supposed to protect them. In over 100 of these cases, the … Read more
It is estimated that in Southeast Asia there are 4.9 million people living with HIV, and the number of new infections is rising every day. More AIDS deaths occur in this region than any other region except for Sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, millions are spent every year waging the war on drugs in … Read more
Ambassador Meir served 45 years as an Israeli diplomat and most recently served as the Director General for Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. He served as the Deputy Director General for Media and Public Affairs during the second Infitada and the Second Lebanon War. He also participated in the negotiations … Read more
You can find a video of the HPR’s conversation with Ambassador Meir here. Ambassador Gideon Meir served for 45 years as an Israeli diplomat and most recently as the director general for public diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. He served as the deputy director general for media and public Affairs during … Read more
In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, creating the first national minimum wage. This bill forever changed the relationship between legislation and workers’ rights, challenging lawmakers to work toward protecting the financial and physical rights of the worker, in this case by ensuring they received a living wage. The … Read more
I walked up eight steps, I hugged a gold statue of St. James the Apostle, and I walked down eight steps. As simple as it sounds, it was the symbol of the end of an inspiring month-long pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. During this month, walking mostly alone, I thought, I … Read more
“TL;DR: I dated Zoe Quinn,” begins the last section of Eron Gjoni’s blog post about breaking up with his game developer girlfriend. “I thought she was the most amazing, kind hearted person in the world.” And then: “Turns out she was bullshitting pretty much everything I fell in love with her for.” It’s difficult to … Read more
The HPR’s Multimedia team attended the events of the weeklong Divest Harvard Fast, in which participants fasted for anywhere between one day and one week as a statement against Harvard’s investment in fossil fuel companies. Held from Oct. 20 – Oct. 24, the fast was organized by the Divest Harvard Campaign. You can access additional … Read more