Javanese Wayang Shadow Puppets on display at the University of Hawaii. Last April, the Peabody Museum celebrated its 150th anniversary by unveiling a new anthropological collection entitled All the World is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. Boasting over 600 items from Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, the collection, according to its … Read more
For nearly four decades, the United States has been losing a grueling ground war on several fronts. In 2016, casualties reached an all-time high and the federal government officially declared this conflict a “national emergency.” Even with over one trillion dollars spent thus far on the war effort, victory is nowhere in sight; deaths continue … Read more
Ethiopia’s economic success has attracted widespread attention. Its GDP grew by 10.5 percent annually between 2006 and 2016, outpacing East Africa’s 5.4 percent growth rate over the same time period. As extreme poverty declined by nearly 40 percent in the country between 2000 and 2011, Ethiopia is quickly emerging as a model of how rapid … Read more
John Bel Edwards was elected governor of Louisiana in 2016. He previously served as the Minority Leader of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Edwards identifies as a conservative Democrat who is pro-life and pro-Second Amendment. His approval rating of 55 percent makes him one of the most-liked governors in the United States. Harvard Political Review: … Read more
Though developed, non-authoritarian countries all over Western Europe and North America abandoned capital punishment years ago, the United States remains the only country in those regions to have not done so. In fact, the United States is ranked in the top five countries in terms of state killings, along with Saudi Arabia, China, Iraq, and … Read more
Democrats will likely find themselves riding a blue wave to victory come November. According to survey data released by the Harvard Public Opinion Project on Monday, young Americans (ages 18-29) are becoming disenchanted by President Trump and the Republican-led Congress, and favorable of Democratic leadership in 2018. The HPOP report states that over 80 … Read more
In recent decades, the tragic overdoses of comedians such as John Belushi and Chris Farley have cast a shadow over conversations about the union of comedy and drugs. Indeed, it might seem like comedians are disproportionately predisposed to fatal drug and alcohol abuse. However, evidence suggests that this might be untrue. Furthermore, a variety of … Read more
Millennials are highly critical of structural flaws in government, media, and society at large, finds the Harvard Public Opinion Project’s spring 2018 youth poll. By contrast, they are skeptical that foreigners, immigrants, or the wealthy are to blame for America’s greatest problems. The poll surveyed 2,631 young people, aged 18 to 29, on a wide … Read more
This article is a part of a series written by the Culture staff of the HPR. It is the product of discussion and debate at our weekly meetings, and reflects the opinions of the members present. On March 19, Harvard’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science Mike Smith announced his resignation. Smith, who … Read more
The political legitimacy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the ruling party of Mexico from 1929 to 2000, has declined since the 1980s. Economic crises in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the splintering of the PRI’s leftmost-wing in 1988, and the formation of the Party of the Democratic Revolution in 1989 have not boded … Read more