Tara Setmayer is a CNN Political Commentator, ABC News Political Contributor, and hosts her own podcast, “Honestly Speaking with Tara Setmayer.” She has appeared regularly on CNN’s primetime programs, including “Erin Burnett OutFront” and “Anderson Cooper 360°”, and is well-known for her fact-focused, no-nonsense approach, especially during the 2016 presidential elections, receiving a designation from … Read more
On June 23rd, New Yorkers will — one way or another — cast their votes in the state’s primary elections. One race, however, will be missing from the ballot. On Monday, two unelected officials moved to cancel the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, denying a voice to millions of New Yorkers at this critical moment in history. The … Read more
During the Vietnam War, Harvard Business School graduate and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara insisted that the war be fought with modern statistical methods — what would today be called “data science.” As a part of the “hamlet evaluation system,” Department of Defense officials would take every bit of information from the frontlines, quantify it, … Read more
Half a year ago, a broad-based anti-government protest movement swept across Lebanon, igniting the most sustained political unrest in recent memory. Incited by a proposed tax on internet messaging services in the midst of a fiscal crisis, and building on the agitation of periodic protests in past years, over one million citizens took to the … Read more
Empty plane during pandemic. While scrolling through Twitter amidst a quarantine-induced boredom spell, I came across a tweet describing someone who had recently returned from a societal sabbatical in which he had left everything behind, including technology, to spend time in nature and recharge. He had left in late January. It has only been a … Read more
The Harvard Political Review’s Swathi Kella speaks with Ragini Malhotra, a high school student living in a city outside of New Delhi, to discuss how COVID-19 has affected her life and highlighted problems with inequality in the country. Edited by Ryan Golemme Video Credit: Stuti Gulati Image Credit: Livemint Originally published Monday, Mar 30, 2020 … Read more
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull broke confidence earlier this week, spilling on his previously private engagements with both Presidents Obama and Trump. Throughout the tome entitled “A Bigger Picture,” Turnbull offers character assessments of various world leaders, and perhaps none were more eyebrow-raising than his disclosure of President Barack Obama’s own appraisal of then-candidate … Read more
Harvard spends a lot of time talking about its inclusive campus experience. Even a recent New York Times article discussed how college campuses act as a great equalizer, where students from every kind of socioeconomic background come together in a single body. But this same article also explored the cold reality of college in the … Read more
While we as a nation confront the spread of a novel coronavirus within the United States, the easiest path is to blame others and turn our backs on the rest of the world. Fear often lends itself to isolationism. This is exactly the policy espoused by President Donald Trump, who, in a speech on March … Read more
IOP Fellow Mark P. Harvey is the former special assistant to the president and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff. Over the past 15 years, he has authored a wide variety of plans, policies, and doctrines to foster resilience through effective risk management. He has been the lead author for … Read more