At a time when Western anti-immigrant sentiment is increasingly endemic, good news comes from an unlikely source. On February 28, 2016, the Swiss people took to the polls, turning down an expansion to the country’s already strict immigration policies. The Swiss People’s Party, Switzerland’s largest party, proposed a piece of legislation last December that would … Read more
“Tenemos único camino, único destino, que es la muerte o el penal.” We have one path, one destiny, which is death or prison. Juan Flores is 32 years old and was born and raised in Apopa, a municipality in the northern district of San Salvador. Living near the country’s capital, nestled in the heart of … Read more
It’s a familiar story. Young, privileged students rally around the hyper-liberal iconoclast’s calls for political revolution. In a year where self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders has captured historic levels of support among young people, surely Harvard—the “Kremlin on the Charles,” housed in“the People’s Republic of Cambridge”—is a hotbed of Sanders activism. The story will be particularly recognizable to … Read more
Interview with spring 2016 IOP fellow and former Ambassador to China, Gary Locke. A transcript of the interview can be found here. Image source: Associated Press
Nominated by President Obama as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske has been serving in this position since 2014. In this role, he has the responsibility of both protecting national security objectives while promoting economic prosperity, all while running the largest federal law enforcement agency. Prior to this experience, he served as … Read more
Mayor Derek Corrigan of Burnaby, British Columbia speaks to a worried crowd about a Kinder Morgan pipeline to be built in their town (Credit: Mark Klotz, Flikr.). In late 2014, the Harvard Management Company purchased an utterly whopping $97,944,000 in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners public equity and $47,925,000 in Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) public equity. … Read more