Yesterday I received an email from Peter Bol, Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, who retroactively informed me of my participation in a research study. The carefully-worded, unapologetic note did not tell me anything I did not already know, thanks to a Crimson article. I was photographed unknowingly once per minute, for three hours per week, all … Read more
On Tuesday evening the Harvard community was blind-sided by an unexpected Crimson article reporting that University Health Services would be terminating its overnight urgent care services after the fall semester in favor of greater accessibility during the day. UHS plans to permanently close Stillman Infirmary, a regular destination for students suffering from a variety of … Read more
Uruguay, a country whose name has often been synonymous with obscurity, will host its runoff presidential election on November 30, with incumbent President José Mujica vacating his seat to one of two candidates: Tabaré Vázquez or Luis Lacalle Pou. Voting in one of its closest elections since the establishment of its current regime, Uruguay is … Read more
On October 17th, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen visited Boston in the midst of stock market turmoil and questions of monetary policy. Instead of delivering a speech on those more conventional topics, Yellen dedicated her entire thirty minutes at the podium to sounding the proverbial alarm on income inequality. In perhaps her most controversial speech as a public official, … Read more
This July, a New York Times investigation uncovered that 129 inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City had suffered “serious injuries”—injuries so severe that the jail’s doctors could not treat them—at the hands of corrections officers, the people who are supposed to protect them. In over 100 of these cases, the … Read more
It is estimated that in Southeast Asia there are 4.9 million people living with HIV, and the number of new infections is rising every day. More AIDS deaths occur in this region than any other region except for Sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, millions are spent every year waging the war on drugs in … Read more
With thousands of young adults suddenly free of the parental yoke, it is no surprise that sex plays a large role in college. And with sex comes the necessity for colleges to engage students in sexual health conversations that encourage and support safe and healthy sexual decisions. These conversations are especially pertinent given that students … Read more
In a recent poll for the French presidential election in 2017, far-right politician Marine Le Pen is polling ahead of the president of France by a whopping eight percentage points. This is the continuation of a long trend that has skyrocketed her party to the top of French politics. Mrs. Le Pen’s numbers indicate that … Read more
West Africa’s current Ebola epidemic is the deadliest in recorded history. Since Patient Zero, a two-year old boy from rural Guinea, died in December of 2013, the outbreak has spread through the country and into Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, crippling already fragile healthcare infrastructures and garnering anxious international attention. The disease has no existing … Read more
On July 9, 1971, a team of American officials stopped for a short rest in a Himalayan hill station. What followed, as then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalls, was the most dramatic event of the Nixon presidency. It was the first diplomatic visit between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and … Read more