The prologue of Telex From Cuba, published in 2008, opens with a young girl, Everly Lederer, fascinated by the notion of a physical boundary, the Tropic of Cancer, represented as a simple line on her globe. With her unconstrained imagination, “she pictured daisy chains of seaweed stretching across the water toward a distant horizon.” When … Read more
We just published a fantastic article (read it!) by staff writer David Freed about the future of the online music market. Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio have taken up where Napster left off, and, so the industry cliché goes, things will never be the same again. What better illustration of this last point than Los Angeles-based … Read more
Russian tanks and troops descend upon the Crimean peninsula. The Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk describes the situation as a “red alert” and “a declaration of war.” NATO calls an emergency meeting. The UN Security Council convenes to assess the situation. President Obama gets on the phone with allies in Europe and even speaks … Read more
Forget the prepared opening and closing statements: here are the paraphrased answers that each Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidate gave tonight to questions posed by the JFK Jr. Forum audience. This is your “digest” version of the candidate roundtable. Candidates are named in the order they sat on stage, also the order of the picture below: … Read more
Protests across Venezuela have worsened since their start over a week ago. At least two more people have died from violence during the protests, bringing the death toll to five. One of the deceased is Genesis Carmona, a beauty queen from the state of Carabobo. In addition, the main highway in Caracas remains blocked by protesters, limiting mobility … Read more
In the Fall of 1974, after the dust from Watergate had begun to settle, renowned broadcast journalist Dan Rather sent in an article to the Harvard Political Review, forecasting the future of the GOP. His predictions are telling of the mood at the time: fraught with conflict and confusion after a betrayal by their party’s … Read more
HPR contributors weigh in on the consequences of Monday’s events.
It’s been exactly a month and a half since I saw 12 Years a Slave. Weeks later, as I sit here writing this article, I still vividly remember the tears in the eyes of the men and women around me at the film’s close, the intense tug in my own chest and the first tear to blur … Read more
Even after trouncing Yale in the Harvard-Yale game, we should remember how greatly Yale has affected our history. Our rivalry with Yale continues to shape us into a better college and institution, even centuries later. By 1825, Yale and Harvard were already well on each other’s radars. Yale’s Reports on the Course of Instruction in … Read more
For two weeks the United States Government was closed for business. Two weeks of stagnation because one half of the members of one chamber of one section of the United States Government decided it would be a good idea to shut the whole thing down—in order to repeal a law that has made it through … Read more