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On November 9th, Harvard Yard was silent. The election was on everyone’s minds, but nobody wanted to discuss it, barring the occasional hushed exchange between close friends. Many of my friends expressed a fear of controversy or misunderstanding that deterred them from speaking about the election. The tense and restrained campus atmosphere revealed a need … Read more

In 2013, women earned only 17.9 percent of all US bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science, and 19.3 percent of those awarded in engineering, despite the fact that over half of all bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women. This underrepresentation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is exacerbated in the work force, where … Read more

Before college, most of my understanding of political ideology was constructed through my parents’. Having grown up outside of the United States, they were largely ignorant of this country’s history and the possible roles it could be playing in their own lives. In the immigrant starter pack, America is advertised as a country where racism … Read more

  Rosalyn LaPier is a writer, ethnobotanist, and environmental historian, as well as an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. She is on the National Steering Committee of the March for science. She is a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School and an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of … Read more

“I’ll tell you what,” sighed Connie Evans, a longtime friend and respected community member from my hometown of Cartersville, Ga. She’s a rare example of a Hillary Clinton supporter in a community where 76 percent of those around her voted for Donald Trump, “Sometimes I feel like a missionary in a foreign field.” As a … Read more

For most middle class Americans, the dream of a stable, well-paying job is a fiction of a past long-departed. With the arrival of the modern system of flexible labor, working class America has waved goodbye to the economic prosperity championed by its forefathers—and begrudgingly welcomed an economy marked by stagnant income levels, dismal prospects of … Read more

For an impressive 235 years, the Icelandic Police Force never killed a single citizen. That all changed on December 2, 2013, when Iceland’s law enforcement agency shot a crazed, unstable gunman. Shortly after the suspect was pronounced dead in his Reykjavik apartment, Icelandic police chief Haraldur Johannessen told reporters that the “police [regretted] the incident…and … Read more

Edwidge Danticat is a writer known for her short stories and novels. Her most notable works include Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones; and Brother, I’m Dying. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award, among other accolades. Harvard Political Review: In your recent New Yorker article, “Poetry in a Time of Protest,” you denounced … Read more

On December 6, President Faust announced that Harvard would not designate itself a sanctuary campus. The label’s lack of “legal significance,” she argued, renders it toothless. Policies associated with sanctuary campus status vary by university. Self-proclaimed sanctuary institutions characteristically institute policies that support undocumented students. For instance, many refuse to willingly assist federal officials in … Read more