Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” has not been a runaway success. Public opinion has moved from disapproval to lukewarm support: monthly Kaiser Health tracking polls show that 40 percent of American adults viewed Obamacare unfavorably in July 2015, down from 53 percent in July of 2014, but … Read more
Hours after Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards squared off against the GOP in a five-hour House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, dozens of Harvard students and community members gathered in Adams House to show their support for the reproductive health organization. The local event, part of a national “Pink Out Day,” aimed to send … Read more
Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” has not been a runaway success. Public opinion has moved from disapproval to lukewarm support: monthly Kaiser Health tracking polls show that 40 percent of American adults viewed Obamacare unfavorably in July 2015, down from 53 percent in July of 2014, but … Read more
“It was a good result for the PAP, but an excellent result for Singapore.” So spoke Lee Hsien Long, Singapore’s prime minister, upon the victory of his People’s Action Party in the recent September 2015 elections. Lee’s words are indubitably optimistic, and justifiably so—the PAP won almost 70 percent of the vote. Context is particularly … Read more
“It was a good result for the PAP, but an excellent result for Singapore.” So spoke Lee Hsien Long, Singapore’s prime minister, upon the victory of his People’s Action Party in the recent September 2015 elections. Lee’s words are indubitably optimistic, and justifiably so—the PAP won almost 70 percent of the vote. Context is particularly … Read more
Would you vote for John Oliver? Guatemala would. In the first round of Guatemala’s recent presidential election, comedian Jimmy Morales won 24 percent of the vote. Morales’ rise symbolizes widespread opposition toward Guatemala’s current government officials. With “Ni corrupto, ni ladrón” (“Neither corrupt nor a thief”) as his campaign slogan, Morales promised to end the … Read more
Updated: September 30, 2015, at 3:17 p.m. The people demanded it, the police officers’ union supported it, and the city council would fund it. Yet curiously, Washington, D.C.’s proposal to put body cameras on its police force threatened to grind to a halt in May. Of the $5.1 million requested to purchase body cameras, the … Read more
In the first Republican debate of the 2016 election, Carly Fiorina told the American public that her second phone call from the Oval Office would be to the Supreme Leader of Iran, to whom her message would be “crystal clear: new deal, new deal.” Later, Donald Trump, on Good Morning America, in usual bombastic fashion, … Read more
“Everyone right? Thank you for being here tonight.” With that curt statement, Australian Government Whip Scott Buchholz began a speech that lasted 52 terse seconds. It was 9:50 P.M. on Monday, September 14. In his speech, Buchholz announced that Tony Abbott had just lost the leadership of the Liberal Party, and along with it his … Read more
“For words and discussion are not a substitute for strength—they are an instrument for the translation of strength into survival and peace.” – John F. Kennedy, June 14, 1960 Updated: September 22, 2015, at 2:41 p.m. On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University on the subject of … Read more