Today, neoimperialist powers often undermine the autonomy of Latin American politics and economics, especially on environmental issues. Although it is usually not perceived in such a way, environmental degradation is essentially a site of neocolonial conquest through the exploitation of natural resources and marginalization of disenfranchised communities. The longstanding legal battle between Chevron and some … Read more
Sometimes it is the tiniest spark that lights the largest fires. Small pocketbook items have become the catalysts for large-scale protest movements around the globe in the past months. A four-cent raise in metro fares in Chile, fluctuations in the price of onions in India, and a twenty-cent tax on the use of the messaging … Read more
Tiffany Cross is a Spring 2020 Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and the co-founder of The Beat DC, a platform that provides critical analysis of national politics, policy, business, and media, highlighting their impact on and relationship with communities of color. She has worked at CNN as an associate producer for the network’s … Read more
Like many of my fellow New Yorkers, I feel all too familiar today with the sound of sirens. The eerie ambience of the ambulance has all but replaced the conventional roar of the “city that never sleeps.” With rare exceptions — from 9/11 to the wake of the 2016 presidential election — at 19 years … Read more
Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). The COVID-19 pandemic will not be contained without international solidarity and coordination, but not all high-level cooperation is productive — in fact, the politicization of some responses has critically compromised them. A particularly high-stakes example of this trend is the distortion of the personal protective equipment (PPE) supply … Read more
During these unprecedented times, something on many people’s minds is how voting should work in the time of COVID-19. However, this is not a new question. In the past, there has been widespread disagreement about what voting in modern America should look like — should there be automatic voter registration, more vote-by-mail, stricter voter ID … Read more
Note: The transcript of this interview provided below has been edited for style and concision. For this reason, it may deviate in part from the video. Neta Meltzer is the Director of Strategic Communications for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wyoming. PPRM is listed as an … Read more
Robert Citronberg, M.D. is the director of the Division of Infectious Disease at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. He has been an infectious disease specialist for 28 years. Harvard Political Review: Can you speak on the work you do at Advocate Health Care, and how has it … Read more
As the coronavirus pandemic rages across the U.S., a number of states — including Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania and 13 others — have postponed primaries and expanded absentee voting systems to reduce the risk associated with in-person voting. However, the absentee ballot systems that many of these states have adopted pose risks to election security due … Read more
As the coronavirus pandemic has progressed, some have blamed a specific urban culprit for increasing the transmission of the virus: population density. The case of one badly-hit American city, New York, has fueled this layman’s theory of viral transmission. “It’s very simple,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference. “It’s about density. … Read more