As Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates refused to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from six Muslim-majority nations. The administration dismissed her in January 2017. Harvard Political Review: You started your career in commercial litigation. What brought you to the Department of Justice (DOJ)? Sally Yates: I had been in private practice for … Read more
David Miliband is President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). He leads the agency’s humanitarian relief programs in more than 40 countries and refugee resettlement assistance in 28 U.S. cities. Prior to leading the IRC, Miliband was a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, serving from 2007 to 2010 as the 74th Secretary of State … Read more
Ann Kalayil is the Co-Founder, President, and Board Chair of the South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (SAAPRI) and was appointed by President Barack Obama as a Regional Administrator of the General Services Administration. She currently serves as the Bureau Chief of Asset Management at the Cook County Government in Illinois. Harvard Political Review: … Read more
Jevon Ng is the Social Work Executive in the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME), an NGO dedicated to providing assistance to migrant workers in Singapore who are abused and exploited. HOME was founded in 2004 at a time when awareness of the working and living conditions of these workers was beginning to rise. Harvard … Read more
Jason Chaffetz served as the U.S. Representative for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District from 2009 to June 2017. From 2015 to 2017, he chaired the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Harvard Political Review: Before becoming a Republican, you were affiliated with the Democratic Party and even worked for Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign. … Read more
Carlos Watson is the co-founder and CEO of OZY Media, a digital news platform that has achieved 40 million unique monthly viewers since its founding in late 2013. He moderates Third Rail with OZY, a primetime, cross-platform debate program that features experts and celebrity guests weekly on PBS. Previously, he served as a political commentator on CNN … Read more
Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones is a CNN political contributor and the host of The Messy Truth, which aims to spark conversation between people with different political views. He is the author of two New York Times best-sellers, The Green Collar Economy (2008) and Rebuild the Dream (2012). His newest release, The Messy Truth, came out … Read more
For Taiwan and much of East Asia, homosexuality has long been a taboo subject. In the influential 1988 novel Crystal Boys, directly translated from Mandarin as “sons of sin,” Pai Hsien-yung tells the story of growing up gay in 1970s Taipei: “As soon as the sun comes up, our kingdom goes into hiding, for it … Read more
On October 15, a truck full of explosives crashed through a barrier near the Safari Hotel in Mogadishu’s commercial district. The bombs killed at least 358 Somalis and wounded over 400 more. Two weeks later, another suicide driver murdered at least 27 people, prompting the municipal government to issue a daytime ban on trucks inside … Read more
Farai Sevenzo did not expect it to happen. A Zimbabwean-born journalist who covers sub-Saharan Africa, Sevenzo noted in a CNN op-ed that for over two decades, he has “witnessed with [his] camera the slow deterioration of people’s hopes in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.” On the morning of November 18, he woke up praying for the best. … Read more