Founded in Russia in 2011 as an anonymous feminist guerrilla punk collective of roughly 10 members, Pussy Riot is now represented in the public eye by only two women, Masha “Maria” Alyokhina and Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova, who declared in 2013 that they were no longer members of the group. The videos that these two women have … Read more
Khizr Khan is a legal consultant whose son, Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in 2004 during the Iraq War. Captain Khan’s sacrifice became famous when his father spoke out against Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 2016. The interview was conducted on February 15, 2017. Harvard Political Review: How did growing up … Read more
“We’re going to have a very, very strict ban,” President Trump declared to reporters on January 28th, the day after he signed an executive order which would impose a temporary ban on all immigrants and nonimmigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries—Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—attempting to enter the United States. Much confusion and … Read more
Yiannopoulos is a troll. To defeat him, we must fight him. Following the peaceful-turned-violent protests against Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley, the Editorial Board of The Harvard Crimson published an article titled “Free Speech, Not Hate Speech,” urging universities to refrain from granting “figures such as Milo Yiannopoulos a platform to espouse … Read more
On every currency note issued by the Reserve Bank of India, the following statement is printed and signed by the Governor of the RBI: “I promise to pay the bearer the sum of [x] Rupees.” On November 8, 2016, this promise was broken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a move that took 86 percent … Read more
Last week at the IOP’s National Campaign for Political Engagement, college students from a variety of schools around the country gathered to discuss political polarization. In one discussion group at the event, U.S. Army veteran Joe Goodwin talked with students about a proposal for a mandatory national service program. In his TED Talk, Goodwin details … Read more
Dr. Thomas A. Burke is the former Science Advisor and deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The interview was conducted on January 19th, 2017. HPR: Since you assumed office, what have been the biggest cultural or technological changes that have affected the EPA’s work? TAB: … Read more
The 2016 presidential election looked, more than anything else, like an Alabama election. Donald Trump’s relentless appeals to populist conservative ideas echo decades-long trends in the South. The current worries about Trump’s irresponsible governing style are similar to concerns Alabama commentators have been expressing about their often-demagogic leaders since before the 1940s. To understand the … Read more
College campuses across the nation are increasingly focused on dismantling unfair and unethical structures—on Harvard’s campus, this has played out in the dining workers’ strike, the push to divest from fossil fuels, and local participation in the Black Lives Matter movement. If students aren’t protesting, they’re at the very least talking about the issues, as … Read more
Over the past year, far right political parties have made major gains in divisive elections throughout the West. Although some of these movements enjoyed victories in previous elections in the 1990s and early 2000s, success of this magnitude across Europe has not occurred since before WWII. Grown from worldwide recessions and refugee crises, nationalism and … Read more