Has anybody else had it up to here with people who tell parents how to raise their children? If you haven’t yet, you might reach the tipping point with this article from Slate’s Allison Benedikt. The title, “If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person,” might strike you as a … Read more
President Obama has unveiled a new ranking system that will grade colleges based on accountability and affordability. The plan is that these rankings will determine the amount of federal aid given to colleges by 2018. Currently, federal aid is based solely on the number of students a college enrolls. So how does Harvard score? Well, according to … Read more
It’s Janet Yellen v. Larry Summers for the Fed chairmanship, or at least that’s what we’re hearing. The contest—waged on each economist’s behalf by politicians, executive branch officials, editors, and commentators of all types—might be the most engrossing recurring news story of the summer. A pair of articles released yesterday saw current and former Harvard … Read more
Frankly, there’s no good way to write this article. The United Kingdom is banning porn, and there’s nothing you can do about it. That, in itself, isn’t even the craziest part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s creepy invasion into the British computer: according to Open Rights Group, the ban, which can be removed per an individual’s … Read more
Secretary of State John Kerry is an important man, so you’d think the respected international statesman’s social media team would have put a little bit more thought into what Secretary Kerry used as his personal Twitter signature (the signature lets readers know that it’s John Kerry personally sending a tweet, and not some anonymous member of the … Read more
National Journal‘s quadrennial “Decision Makers” feature of the Obama administration’s top officials reveals that 40 percent have either an undergraduate or graduate degree from an Ivy League institution. Harvard takes first with 23 undergraduate and 38 graduate degrees; Harvard led the way in 2009, as well. Of the 250 officials profiled by National Journal, only 25 percent have … Read more
National Journal‘s quadrennial “Decision Makers” feature of the Obama administration’s top officials reveals that 40 percent have either an undergraduate or graduate degree from an Ivy League institution. Harvard takes first with 23 undergraduate and 38 graduate degrees; Harvard led the way in 2009, as well. Of the 250 officials profiled by National Journal, only 25 percent have … Read more
The Senate confirmed Penny S. Pritzker ’81 as Commerce Secretary today by a 97-1 vote. Some were expecting the confirmation process to be fraught with difficulty, given Pritzker’s past dealings with unions, financial disclosure forms, and tax havens. Another HPR alumnus, Alexander Burns ’08 even wrote an article in Tuesday’s Politico entitled, “On Penny Pritzker, where’s the … Read more
President Obama nominated current Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Jason Furman to chair the Council of Economic Advisers at a press conference on Monday. If confirmed, Furman will replace the outgoing Alan Krueger, who is returning to teach at Princeton. Furman has advised the president since 2008 on major pieces of legislation and … Read more
President Obama nominated current Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Jason Furman to chair the Council of Economic Advisers at a press conference on Monday. If confirmed, Furman will replace the outgoing Alan Krueger, who is returning to teach at Princeton. Furman has advised the president since 2008 on major pieces of legislation and … Read more