This June, five Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, severed all diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar. A small Arab Gulf state, Qatar is incredibly wealthy due to its location near several major petroleum deposits, possessing the world’s second highest GDP per capita. Not only did these Arab countries withdraw all … Read more
Nancy Youssef is a national security correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal, Ms. Youssef served as the Senior National Security Correspondent for Buzzfeed News. Previously, Ms. Youssef spent extensive time in the Middle East reporting on U.S. foreign policy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Harvard Political Review: Foreign policy … Read more
When the Bharatiya Janata Party swept to a thumping victory in the 2014 Indian election, there were hopes for an era of revitalized economic reform, as well as fears of an era of Hindu majoritarian rule. Three years on, the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make the world’s seventh-largest economy more business-friendly and … Read more
Richard Foley was not surprised by Donald Trump’s election. Every day, he said, voters “drive past these abandoned hulks of buildings . . . they see the effect of NAFTA and bad trade agreements.” But while protectionism has long defined voters in the Midwest, Foley was speaking about his home state of Connecticut in an … Read more
In this episode of HPR Talk, we take a deeper look into our covers theme “Free Time.” In the first segment, Sarah Tisdall discusses the different types of free times that exist in America’s prison systems with writer Sophia Li. In the second (beginning at 15:35), James Blanchfield talks with Mikael Tessema about the future … Read more
An abandoned neighborhood in Detroit, MI. America is facing a fiscal crisis and no one is talking about it. Pension reform has snuck under the public’s radar, even though it poses the single greatest threat to municipal and state governments. Pensions are a system by which government employees—teachers, firefighters, prison guards, etc.—receive regular payments after … Read more
World War II ended on September 2, 1945, but in Poland, painful war memories are alive and well, deeply integrated into the national identity and state attitude towards the preservation of history. Through a variety of educational efforts, Poland’s conservative government has worked over the past year to highlight this history and the unique tribulations … Read more
Just inside the front door of the James Hillhouse Comprehensive High School in New Haven, Connecticut looms a full-body metal detector: the first test students must pass every day. On her way to class each morning, recent graduate Coral Ortiz, like her peers, had to endure both this and a bag-search. The trials of the … Read more
Courtesy of Creative Commons In 2008, Texas student Abigail Fisher received a … Read more
After eight months in office, President Donald Trump has bombed Syria, called for increased deployment levels to Afghanistan, and threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Before running for president, though, he tweeted against military intervention in Syria, called the war in Afghanistan a “complete waste,” and said he … Read more