The murder trial of O.J. Simpson was resurrected in 2016. Ryan Murphy, co-creator of American Horror Story, produced the TV drama American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, while Ezra Edelman, Academy Award-winning documentary director and producer, created the documentary O.J.: Made in America. These captivating works did not simply retell the story of the … Read more
“The story I tell is one of a city transformed,” opens Thomas Sugrue in his book The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Once America’s fourth-largest city, boasting over 1.8 million residents and a multitude of car manufacturers, steel mills, depots, and parts plants, Sugrue noted that by 1996, Detroit … Read more
Kelly Ayotte served as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 2011 to 2017. Harvard Political Review: You clerked for Justice Sherman Horton in New Hampshire and eventually became Attorney General of the state. Was there a particular moment when your political identity began to take shape or was it a gradual process? KA: I … Read more
HPR’s Interviews Editor, Marty Berger, interviews Spring 2017 IOP Fellow Gil Kerlikowske about his experiences as the former Commissioner of US Customs and Border Control and, before that, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The American experiment began with a revolution. At its core was fair representation, the idea that individuals should be able to exercise control over their government. The Declaration of Independence expresses this idea, with Thomas Jefferson writing, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed-That whenever any Form … Read more
Space is dangerous and expensive. It’s also a mission-critical asset to a modern military force where precedence and collaboration between rivals is scant. National space programs are immensely expensive investments of capital and manpower. For all the private benefits a space program provides, military interest and nationalism have driven extraterrestrial innovation. Defense budgets are initially … Read more
Residential income segregation—the separation of residents by income and the isolation of neighborhoods both very rich and very poor—perpetuates income inequality. And it’s on the rise in the United States. Income segregation is both a cause and a consequence of income inequality. It’s a consequence in that economic inequality divides Americans into groups which then … Read more
When Hon’mana Seukteoma recalls her childhood, she thinks of Lukeville, Arizona. Located just over two hours south of the state capital of Phoenix, this tiny Southern Arizona town is home to roughly 35 residents, thousands of organ-pipe cacti, and, most notably, a United States port of entry that connects Mexico’s Carretera Federal 8 to Arizona’s … Read more
Lesbos, one of the larger Greek islands, lies just off the Turkish coast, not far from the city of Izmir. Formerly a popular tourist destination, at the height of the migrant crisis the island became one of the main hubs through which refugees arrived on European shores. Thousands landed on the island daily, most by … Read more