Two new studies by researchers at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication could dramatically change the way politicians and activists on both sides of the table talk about climate change (or global warming). The first survey established that, while Americans are equally familiar with the terms global warming and climate change, 45 percent say they … Read more
This past year saw shootings at UC Santa Barbara and Purdue, bomb threats at Princeton and Harvard, and the Boston Marathon bombings in a metro area home to more than 60 institutions of higher learning. Administrators are trained to act quickly and thoroughly during these types of events in order to ensure that the relevant constituencies … Read more
In the early 1990s, Argentina began a strong push toward neoliberal reform, drawing praise from the economic ideology’s proponents worldwide. This move precipitated the depreciation of the peso against the U.S. dollar, as well as defaults on massive debts to the International Monetary Fund, all culminating in an economic crisis in 2001. The crisis pushed … Read more
Responsible Investment at Harvard was launched in the spring of 2013 to hold Harvard accountable for the ethical practices of companies it invests in using its endowment. In particular, RI@H would like to work with those affected by Harvard’s timber plantations in Argentina. In April, the Responsible Investment at Harvard Coalition brought two organizers … Read more
Roads, Riots, and Rabble-rousing: the World’s Largest Election Each time we turn the corner onto a different street in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city, my grandmother taps me on the shoulder. “Modi paved this road,” she says, every time. We were returning from a week in Mumbai, where we trundled through hours of traffic to relatives’ … Read more
India, the world’s largest democracy, is currently gripped by election fever. Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are set to win big, as popularity for the current governing party, the Indian National Congress (INC), is in steep decline. Yet, in the complex Indian political landscape, nothing is so simple. We will not know … Read more
It was 3 a.m. on April 5 when my parents called me from Afghanistan. Their first words were, “We voted today.” I could hear the excitement in their voices and the hope in the way they talked about the election. Just like my family, for many Afghans April 5, 2014 was the biggest day of … Read more
The social books website Goodreads has an incredibly handy user-generated list of The New York Times’s best-selling fiction and nonfiction books of 2013. Most notable was just how many of 2013’s nonfiction bestsellers were written by conservative television and radio personalities. Bill O’Reilly was most prolific: three books of his, Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln, and Killing … Read more
Due to decades of lobbying and a diversity of influence group pressures, the United States federal tax code has become a minefield of deductions and loopholes. Leaders on both sides of the aisle have publicly called for reform. One important thing stands in the way of comprehensive reform: the enormous power of groups who wants … Read more
Two years ago, on February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead on his way home from a local convenience store by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Following Zimmerman’s acquittal last summer, the national race narrative was dominated in part by a conversation that black parents feel compelled to have with their sons—in … Read more