Two months after being ousted as the Hawaii House minority leader for her criticism of President Trump, State Representative Beth Fukumoto resigned from the Republican Party and joined the Democratic Party. In a state where Republicans control only six of the 51 seats in the State Legislature and 80 percent of elected officials are Democrats, … Read more
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigned on Monday, April 10, avoiding impeachment after he allegedly used state funds to cover up a sex scandal. This is only the latest in a string of statewide controversies — a few months ago, Alabama had an entirely different government. The courts were led by the fanatical Roy Moore, who … Read more
This semester, the HPR continues our series of interviews with the IOP Resident Fellows. For this installment, we sat down with Spring 2017 Fellow Sarah Hurwitz to discuss her career as a speechwriter in the Obama administration for both the President and the First Lady.
There is a conflict between the desire for respectful speech and free speech, and nowhere is it more clearly manifested than on college campuses. At the University of Missouri last November, student protesters physically tried to eject a student journalist from a protest area. Following the incident, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote, … Read more
On March 10, 2017, after a 92-day trial, the Constitutional Court of South Korea unanimously decided to impeach former President Park Geun-hye, who was suspected of conspiring with the daughter of a cult leader, Choi Sun-sil. The former president was accused of installing those connected with Choi in the government, and of giving her illegal … Read more
Updated: April 8, 2017, at 4:15 p.m. In May 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell published his memoir The Long Game, a personal reflection on his three decades in the upper house of Congress. Just months earlier, McConnell set into motion another long game, which finally ended today, and whose resolution will have an impact on … Read more
Rosalyn LaPier is a writer, ethnobotanist, and environmental historian, as well as an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. She is on the National Steering Committee of the March for science. She is a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School and an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of … Read more
Before he became the longest-tenured heavyweight champion of the world and, according to many, the first African American to achieve the status of national hero, Joe Louis was an average 15-year-old teenager growing up on the east side of Detroit. In the midst of the Great Depression, Louis found himself—like many of his peers—seeking solace … Read more
The Russian populace demonstrated a rare show of dissent in late March, gathering in various cities in large numbers for anti-government protests. With 20,000 people in Moscow, 10,000 in St. Petersburg, and 2,000 in Novosibirsk, the protests were large in both scale and scope. However, the large turnout translated into chaos, as even the leader of … Read more
Many people are familiar with Einstein’s remark, “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” The comment came when the philosopher Bertrand Russell was met with opposition, ultimately successful, to his teaching a class at the City College of New York, his prior remarks on sexual morality having disqualified him in the eyes … Read more