Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a 2014 visit to Seoul National University, South Korea. North Korea has a long, proud history of flirting with disaster and testing the patience of the international community. For the most part, its only foreign ally, China, has hesitated to respond with heavy economic sanctions. When the UN passed a … Read more
HPR’s multimedia team went out on March 8, International Women’s Day, to talk to pedestrians around Harvard and find out what feminism means to them.
Grasping the final balustrade of a staircase with the resoluteness of a captain at sea, Teddy Roosevelt emerges from John Singer Sargent’s portrait as an embodiment of the legacy he left behind: a tenacious leader who thundered from the bully pulpit, reshaping the country through conservation, militarization, and corporate reform. The preeminent portraitist of his … Read more
It’s 7:30 a.m, the Monday morning after Christmas. Most parents are taking advantage of the holiday morning to sleep in, relax, and enjoy their new gifts. But Officer Brendan Walsh helps his daughter gear up for the first game of the annual Mayor’s Cup. The game is tight, but cross-town rival Allston-Brighton pulls away in … Read more
It’s 7:30 a.m, the Monday morning after Christmas. Most parents are taking advantage of the holiday morning to sleep in, relax, and enjoy their new gifts. But Officer Brendan Walsh helps his daughter gear up for the first game of the annual Mayor’s Cup. The game is tight, but cross-town rival Allston-Brighton pulls away in … Read more
“He departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying… He does not appear intimidated by gravity’s divine suction or by what awaits him… Some people who … Read more
At no point in our nation’s recent memory—and certainly not in the memories of the millennials who comprise this magazine’s staff—has policing been as contentious an issue as it is today. The killings of black men from Trayvon Martin to Philando Castille at the hands of officers have thrust conversations about racial bias in law … Read more
I went to see Moonlight alone, one weekend during reading period. The roads were iced and my hair was undone but I made a spontaneous decision to catch the 2:15 showing—I arrived at 2:30, sweating, opening credits rolling: every n*gga is a staaaaar… It was December and To Pimp a Butterfly had recently transformed me. … Read more
*The author is a member of the group Student Labor Action Movement, or SLAM. This past fall, Harvard dining hall workers went on strike for 22 days after seven months of failed contract negotiations. Harvard University Dining Services workers wanted to maintain their previous health care plan. Local 26, the union representing HUDS workers, … Read more
What’s HRC looking at? Oh….got it. ☕️☕️ Via @BraddJaffy pic.twitter.com/KNQ81MiyZL — Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017 This picture might just be the greatest irony of today’s extraordinarily strange political scene—Hillary Clinton, whose historic presidential campaign was often eclipsed by controversy surrounding her private email server use, reading about how the current vice president did the … Read more