In 2009, when Dick Cheney left office with a robust approval rating of 13 percent, it seemed nothing united Americans more than a good joke at his expense. Association with the outgoing vice president meant political suicide, a fate John McCain desperately tried to avoid when his campaign politely requested that Cheney skip the 2008 Republican … Read more
With thousands of young adults suddenly free of the parental yoke, it is no surprise that sex plays a large role in college. And with sex comes the necessity for colleges to engage students in sexual health conversations that encourage and support safe and healthy sexual decisions. These conversations are especially pertinent given that students … Read more
It’s taken until now—in the wind chill of late October—for me to come to terms with the fact that it’s not summer anymore. I’m usually not subject to delusions about when one season ends and another begins—we have solstices and equinoxes to make easy work of that—but for the first time in 22 years, I … Read more
In a recent poll for the French presidential election in 2017, far-right politician Marine Le Pen is polling ahead of the president of France by a whopping eight percentage points. This is the continuation of a long trend that has skyrocketed her party to the top of French politics. Mrs. Le Pen’s numbers indicate that … Read more
In a recent poll for the French presidential election in 2017, far-right politician Marine Le Pen is polling ahead of the president of France by a whopping eight percentage points. This is the continuation of a long trend that has skyrocketed her party to the top of French politics. Mrs. Le Pen’s numbers indicate that … Read more
In 2008, Nate Silver, a relatively unknown baseball statistician, correctly predicted every Senate race and all but one state in the presidential election. He accomplished this by neither physically reporting from the ground nor by using some esoteric technique of political science. Instead, he used basic statistics to analyze the large volume of polls available … Read more
On September 8, Harvard University received the largest alumni donation in its 378-year history when alumnus Gerald Chan gave a whopping $350 million to the School of Public Health. Harvard is by no means a stranger to massive donations from its alumni. According to reports from The Crimson, alumni donations contribute greatly to Harvard’s enormous … Read more
June 17, 2006 North Waziristan (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) A body, handcuffed and shot in the head from behind, is found in a Miranshah marketplace. It belongs to freelance journalist Hayatullah Khan. Six months prior, Khan had been abducted by five armed men after publishing a photo essay that implicated Americans in the death of … Read more
While the country fixates on control of the US Senate, these are the other races some HPR writers will be following closely.
After months and months of endless campaigning, the 2014 midterm elections are finally here. With the House firmly in Republican control, most of the attention this cycle is focused on the U.S. Senate. In that spirit, I’ve gone through every U.S. Senate race in order of “Least Certainty who will Win” to “Most Certainty who … Read more