The importance of the coming years on India’s long-term viability as an international power is not lost on either local officials or international onlookers, and economic growth and internal development are crucial to the country’s future.. Economic growth rate is often used as a gauge for a countries’ commercial potential, drumming up interest in foreign companies for … Read more
Conservative positions on income inequality are often cast by the wayside. In a certain way, they are considered as fossils: They can teach us about the failures of the past, but they are never considered as any type of solution. This isn’t without reason. After all, as Josh Barro, politics editor at Business Insider, told … Read more
Mounting unemployment. Empty city blocks. Foreclosed properties. Soup lines. If not for the conspicuous signs of modernity – the 21st century high-rises, the passers-by using mobile phones – you’d be forgiven for mistaking downtown Detroit for any Depression-era American city. On July 18, 2013, the city, once an industrial powerhouse buoyed by the likes of Ford … Read more
Judicial review regarding “due process of law” impacts a range of legal fields: contract law, issues of racial equality and citizenship rights, economic regulation, and campaign finance restrictions. From its earliest interpretation of due process of law in Dred Scott v Sanford (1857), the Supreme Court has applied the term to enforce legal uniformity across … Read more
On the evening of Thursday, September 12th a correspondent of the HPR spent an hour at the protest of Insomnia Cookies organized by the Industrial Workers of the World. Approximately 25 protesters gathered outside of Insomnia, chanting and holding signs. The protest was sparked by allegations that Insomnia pays workers below the minimum wage, engages … Read more
This week in a provocative New Yorker post, Nicholas Thompson suggests that Stanford should be relabeled as a startup incubator, rather than a university. He cites the case of Crinkle, a young Silicon Valley startup with strong ties to Stanford undergraduates and faculty, and argues, “The leadership of [Stanford] has encouraged an endeavor in which … Read more
3:51PM: Jenny Choi and Harleen Gambhir here in Sanders Theater. It’s so crowded here that we both would not have been able to get in without Valentina Perez’s help! (Thank you Valentina!) 3:59PM: It’s starting! – Jenny Choi 4:03PM: “The blunt truth is that men still run the world, and I’m not sure if that’s … Read more
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to cross the Yard. There have been evenings when I walked in late to a meeting in Mather because I had to avoid the perilous Leverett courtyard shortcut. The reason is simple: unleashed dogs. I’m a self-acknowledged extremist when it comes to this issue. On a backpacking trip, … Read more
When grotesque, anti-Semitic remarks made by President Mohamed Morsi in September of 2010 were widely published earlier this week, they were met with appropriate outrage by the Western world. Calling Zionists the “descendants of apes and pigs” is completely unacceptable coming from anyone, let alone the president of a country, despite Morsi’s attempts to explain that his remarks were … Read more
Founded as a haven for men facing religious persecution in England, the United States has never been the tolerant utopia some of its Anglican founders envisioned. The country has never had a Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu president and elected its first Catholic president nearly two hundred years into its existence. The election of John Kennedy … Read more