I’m a big fan of Primal Scream: I love it enough to have participated in it three times before. In fact, until the Primal Scream protest was planned, I was planning to run again this semester. I participated in the Primal Scream protest because it felt wrong not to do so, despite knowing full well … Read more
A few short minutes before midnight on December 10, hundreds of Harvard undergraduates gathered in the center of Harvard’s campus to partake in a semiannual tradition called Primal Scream. This year the tradition, which involves students taking a naked lap through campus in order to relieve end-of-semester stress, was interrupted by a much smaller group … Read more
We asked for four and a half minutes of silence to symbolize the four and a half hours that an unarmed, facedown, dead Michael Brown was left in the streets of Ferguson, MO. A police officer had shot him six times. And we asked for four and a half minutes of respect, four and a … Read more
After a midterm election turnout of abysmal proportions, amid grinding government gridlock, it may seem strange to say that this moment feels like an especially exciting time to be covering politics. Two well-known trends—disengagement and disappointment with politics and other traditional institutions, in the United States at least, along with rapid changes in the news … Read more
On newsstands across the United States, the faces that most often stare out from magazine covers are not those of political leaders or victims of war but those of Kim Kardashian, George Clooney, Beyoncé, and the like. Celebrities fascinate the American public and, consequently, capture significant media coverage in celebrity news outlets. The significance of … Read more
Several weeks ago, an unnamed senior official from the Obama administration caused a stir when, in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg, he said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit”. Most commentators, Goldberg included, took it as a sign of the growing tensions between Netanyahu and … Read more
Seth Rogen is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He starred in and co-produced The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and also starred in the film Neighbors. He and Evan Goldberg have co-written Superbad, Pineapple Express, and This is the End. The Interview, a movie co-written, directed, and produced by Rogen and Goldberg, will be released on December 25, … Read more
The news industry has had a rough decade. Print readership is steadily declining, newspapers are closing, and journalists with decades of experience are being laid off. In response, major newspapers have made considerable changes. They’re attempting to combat diminishing reader interest by shortening stories, adding commentary, and most notably, using social media to their advantage. … Read more
Just months into serving her first term as an Undergraduate Council representative, she was fed up. “It’s a lot of jumping through hoops and trying to work in the system to make change happen,” a junior, hereinafter referred to with the pseudonym Chen, said. “I quit because I primarily just didn’t want to spend my … Read more
On December 4, thousands of protestors flooded the streets downtown Boston to protest against the non-indictment of Daniel Pantaleo, a white police officer who choked unarmed black man, Eric Garner to death. Throughout the evening, activists staged multiple “die-in” demonstrations, temporarily disrupting traffic. Similar demonstrations have been seen in cities across the nation, such as New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta and San Francisco. … Read more