Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin magazine. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, Mother Jones and Timeline. Her forthcoming book with Micah Uetricht is Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism. On January 28, Day spoke at the “Class Warfare: The Future … Read more
On December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives, under the direction of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voted to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The move came after months of inquiry into Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, stemming from the press leak that a credible whistleblower had … Read more
As the most liberal state in the country — with 35 percent of the population identifying as liberal — one might expect Massachusetts to have many female representatives in its state and local governments. After all, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to support traditional women’s issues, such as childcare and reproductive rights, and tout … Read more
Brittany Packnett is the co-founder of Campaign Zero, and a member of President Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force. Packnett played a large role in the planning and coordination of the Ferguson Uprising in 2014. She previously served as the Executive Director of Teach For America, an organization which recruits graduates from top universities to … Read more
Preet Bharara was the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York until 2017. During his time there, he earned a reputation as a “crusader prosecutor” against public corruption and Wall Street crime. Now, he serves as the talk show host of the podcast “Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara,” where he analyzes current … Read more
Jeff Flake is a resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for the fall of 2019. Flake served as U.S. Senator from Arizona from 2013 to 2019 after having served in the House of Representatives for twelve years. Senator Flake was a part of the “Gang of Eight,” a group of eight senators who pushed for … Read more
I sit down with her after she speaks on the Global Climate Crisis Panel in Boylston Hall, part of the Heat Week organized by the Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice. She is coughing. When I begin asking her questions, her responses are interspersed with comments like, “Shit, I need to save my voice for the … Read more
John D. Bates is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Bates was appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, and from July 2013 to January 2015, Bates served as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. In August 2018, Judge … Read more
Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) represented Virginia’s 10th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. Prior to her time in Congress, she served in the Virginia House of Delegates. She is currently an IOP Resident Fellow for Spring 2019. Harvard Political Review: You were a moderate Republican woman serving in Congress under … Read more
Rosalind Helderman A.B. ’01 is a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post, where she has reported since graduating from Harvard College in 2001. She regularly contributes to MSNBC and was part of The Washington Post’s team that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of Russian interference in the … Read more