The campus discourse surrounding the HUDS strike demonstrates our political division Harvard University Dining Service workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if Harvard and HUDS fail to come to an agreement regarding wages and healthcare plans in the near future. Harvard is attempting to adopt a new healthcare plan that would increase costs for HUDS … Read more
Tomi Lahren is a political commentator. Her show Tomi appears on TheBlaze, an independent conservative network. Harvard Political Review: We’ll start where your show ends, with Final Thoughts. How do you and your team select the topics? Tomi Lahren: Final Thoughts started a few years ago with my first show, on One America. It was the closing segment, and it … Read more
Last Sunday, Harvard College Queer Students & Allies (QSA) announced that it would “remain politically neutral on issues that do not effect LGBTQ+ people explicitly because of their queer identity.” Shortly afterward, many students began to support a petition intended to reverse this policy. The Petition The petition makes two main arguments. Firstly, it points … Read more
On the 24th of April, thousands of people poured onto the New Haven Green to support—and appreciate the populist spectacle of—Bernie Sanders. For investigative purposes, I was among them. The Sanders campaign garnered an unprecedented level of support from unconventional left wingers and democrats alike, and though the campaign has now run its course, on … Read more
From Damascus to Paris, from Istanbul to Brussels, and from Lesbos to Berlin, 2015 and early 2016 witnessed an international refugee crisis, escalated conflict in Syria and Iraq, and the proliferation of ISIS-orchestrated terror attacks across western Europe. These events, rather than engendering a more cooperative, inclusive international community, triggered unprecedented divisiveness and exclusion, the … Read more
In February 2015, Harvard bought 50,000 shares of the oil field services company Baker Hughes. At the time, BHI’s stock price was close to $62. By August of the same year, the stock had dropped to around $56/share; Harvard decided to purchase 750,000 more shares, worth around $50 million in total. However, the stock has … Read more
It seems unreal, almost like a playground fight: Trump sees a meme poking fun at his wife and responds by tweeting that he would “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife, while also tweeting out a derogatory side-by-side image of both women. Even when Cruz tweeted Trump that the original meme was from an anti-Trump PAC … Read more
The Operating Room and Elsewhere Surgery as Reconstruction Here’s the funny thing: It actually does resemble TV. The scrubs, the instruments, the surroundings are nearly indistinguishable from what Grey’s Anatomy would have one believe. Even the terminology that floats through the air feels familiar from actors’ lips. I hurried back and forth, evading wires, … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, better known as the voting body in charge of awarding the 88th Oscars this Sunday, has demonstrated a severe loss of legitimacy as an institution on the basis of its very purpose. The Academy claims to “honor outstanding artistic and scientific achievements” in motion pictures, evaluating hundreds of collective … Read more
