Juan Martín Guevara is a political activist and author, best known as Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s brother. In 2016, he published Che, My Brother, a retelling of his perspective on Che’s life and legacy. Leer en español Harvard Political Review: Despite the fact that it has been half a century since your brother’s death, his image … Read more
While most outside reporting on Mexico is currently focused on its upcoming presidential election, the country is currently undergoing a major economic transition. Namely, major supply chain issues are barring the country’s approximately one million micro-businesses, or tienditas, from reaching profitability and sustainability in their efforts to service the over-100 million citizens that rely on … Read more
Roughly 40 percent of all food produced for human consumption in the United States—133 billion pounds of food and $165 billion annually—is wasted. Redistributing only 2 percent of this wasted food could end hunger in the United States. This epidemic of waste is also the single largest contributor to landfills, a major contributor to methane … Read more
In early February, the Senate approved Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s successor with an 84-13 vote. Powell, however, is not a run-of-the-mill economist — nor a trained economist at all, for that matter. In fact, Powell will be the first Federal Reserve Chair in 40 years to lack a doctorate in economics. … Read more
Mary Katharine Ham is a conservative journalist, serving as a senior writer at The Federalist and editor at both Townhall Magazine and Hot Air. She also appears on CNN. Guy Benson is a Fox News contributor and an editor at Townhall Magazine. Together, they co-authored the recent book End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down … Read more
This past January, the city council of Clark County, Nevada, approved over $750 million in tax-free municipal bonds for the construction of a $1.9 billion stadium for the NFL’s Raiders. This comes on the heels of Arlington, Texas, agreeing to provide $500 million for a new $1.1 billion stadium for the MLB’s Rangers. Around the … Read more
Between early 2015 and mid-2017, a narrative of environmental injustice that eventually escalated to a federal state of emergency publicly unfolded in the city of Flint, Mich. Headlines accused officials of depraved indifference if not deliberate poisoning, and the public continues to question if lead exposure during the crisis has contributed to a recent decline … Read more
Despite declining levels of trust in the federal government, public confidence in local government has remained stable over the past three decades. Americans trust their local governments more than their state governments and the federal government. Moreover, Americans also think the quality of candidates for political office at the local level is higher than the … Read more
Chris Christie served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. He was a federal prosecutor in the Bush administration from 2002 to 2008. During his governorship, Christie was nominated by President Donald Trump to chair the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission in 2017. Harvard Political Review: As governor, you dealt with … Read more
It was not long ago that then-governor Bill Clinton, running for president in 1992, publicly put a mentally ill man, Ricky Rey Rector, to death as evidence that he would be tough on crime. Having previously suffered an electoral defeat in Arkansas to an opponent who accused him of being soft on criminals, Clinton was … Read more