http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV2AwL9x2xk&width=665 What are the reasons that we should be concerned about cybersecurity today? Staff writer Tom Silver ’16 talks about his article “Hacking Homeland: How Do We Prevent a Cyber Pearl Harbor?” in the 2012 winter issue of the Harvard Political Review. Read the full article here. You can access additional content by subscribing to … Read more
Freshly reelected President Barack Obama would certainly like to use his political leverage to resolve the looming confrontation over the Iranian nuclear program. For most of the past decade, Iran has invested significant resources in a nuclear enrichment program that it maintains is peaceful. A more skeptical international community, fearful of a nuclear weapons-capable Iran, … Read more
As we check email, listen to music online, and log onto our favorite social networks, we never see nation-states exchanging blows or even the remnants of their combat. However, military officials and cybersecurity experts agree that the Internet is an active battleground. Some say it has the characteristics of a jungle, with militant hackers taking … Read more
Most college students can hardly remember a time when America was not at war. To many of us, it may seem unfathomable, if the words of President Obama hold true, that the final withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2014 will conclude the first chapter of the War on Terror. Even if potential conflicts with … Read more
Extremist groups like Al-Qaeda are no strangers to the African continent with operations in Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, most notably through the militant group Al-Shabaab. Their growing prowess, especially in Northern Africa, was illustrated by Al-Qaeda’s recent involvement in the Malian coup d’état. Al-Qaeda’s naturalization in Africa has been perceived as a threat to not … Read more
Harvard is America’s university. It was, and remains, our answer to Oxford, where students are taught a liberal, democratic, and distinctly American brand of education. In recent years, Harvard has pivoted into a more global role, drawing students from every corner of the world. These students, though, do not always stay behind. Increasingly, graduates leave … Read more
In an interview with the Harvard Crimson last year, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger mentioned something unique about the Kennedy administration: it was the first to heavily utilize college professors. Kissinger said, “it was only in the Kennedy administration in the sixties that an organic relationship was established between the White House and Harvard… … Read more
Today, there an estimated 80 million American “Millennials,” the generational cohort comprised of those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. But, given the current policy debates, you might not even know they exist. Matthew Warshauer, student director of Harvard’s Public Opinion Project, tells the HPR that, “If [Millennials] were more organized, they would … Read more
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns are employing digital technology to outspend, outmaneuver, and outfox one another. Millions of dollars are being poured into data servers that collect your personal information in an attempt to determine whether you will commit money or votes. If Howard Dean pioneered the digital campaign in 2004 and Barack Obama … Read more
When the Dutch government proposed a law last fall designed to severely restrict dual citizenship, some were quick to declare the start of a European trend, spurred by the increasingly heated political rhetoric surrounding immigration. Despite efforts in the Netherlands, many countries in Europe, Latin America, and other countries as diverse as the Philippines and … Read more