Associate U.S. Editor Chloe E.W. Levine moderates a dialogue between Menat Bahnasy, President of the Harvard College Democrats, and Wesley Donhauser, President of the Harvard Republican Club, about political discourse and how we can re-learn to have conversations across the aisle. Edited by Nicolas Medrano
With 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats, and 36 governorships up for election, it was expected that the battleground for the 2018 midterm election would be a large one. But even with these expectations, some close races are popping up in unexpected places. Even though South Dakota voted for President Donald Trump by 30 percentage … Read more
It’s 7:30 a.m, the Monday morning after Christmas. Most parents are taking advantage of the holiday morning to sleep in, relax, and enjoy their new gifts. But Officer Brendan Walsh helps his daughter gear up for the first game of the annual Mayor’s Cup. The game is tight, but cross-town rival Allston-Brighton pulls away in … Read more
With the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, marking only the third time in recent memory an active justice has died, a firestorm of controversy and has erupted surrounding who his possible successor may be as well as the fate of current cases before the Court. Perhaps the most notable of these cases is … Read more
Last week a team of HPR writers and editors traveled up to New Hampshire for the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Celebration. Our StreetTalk team asked around to determine why democrats choose to support Secretary Hilary Clinton or Senator Bernie Sanders.
Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, and xenophobic diatribes have provided ample fodder for tabloids and mainstream media alike. Pundits have eagerly covered the megalomaniacal billionaire’s presidential candidacy, updating their audiences with Trump’s latest and greatest insults. Trump’s campaign has morphed into a social media phenomenon, with his bellicose tweets offering instant gratification or exasperation. Nevertheless, amid … Read more
In “Human Too,” the HPR explores the more personal side of controversial and often underrepresented issues by examining those who support them through a series of photo essays. In this first installment, the HPR looks at attendees of a rally in support of Presidential candidate Donald Trump held Tuesday, 2/2 in Milford, NH. A mother … Read more
We all remember our first bookstore. The flush of colorful covers, stacked on shelf after shelf and ranging into the distance; the sound and sensation of flapping pages. The scent of espresso from the inevitably adjacent café. I’m describing my own: a Barnes & Noble in a Seattle shopping mall. When I learned it would … Read more
The increase in partisanship in the U.S. over the last several decades has made it much harder for legislators to compromise and enact change on a variety of issues. One of these issues is gun control, where Americans are split along ideological, geographical, and socioeconomic lines. This divide makes it extremely tough for legislators to … Read more
Having worked under two presidents (Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto) of different political parties, Jose Antonio Meade is the first Mexican to occupy four different positions as Secretary—of Energy, of Finance and Public Credit, of Foreign Affairs, and, currently, of Social Development. Meade graduated with a degree in Economics from the Autonomous Technological Institute of … Read more