Now that Republicans have begun to wrap up their postmortem of 2012, one would expect to see a notable change in strategy and messaging in major state and national campaigns. The 2014 Senate elections are already in the bullpen, but a more immediate assessment of tactics may be 2013’s two off-year gubernatorial elections, in New … Read more
Last Saturday, the day after the uprising, I left home to go to Besiktas around 1 p.m. My plan was to go help the people who were cleaning up in Besiktas, walk to Taksim to join the protestors in the square, and then move on to Gezi Park. In my backpack I had two bottles of … Read more
The summer 2013 issue of the Harvard Political Review is now online. The magazine explores the intersection of religion and politics, at home and abroad. In addition to the print content, we are proud to present an online feature in which HPR writers and editors discuss how religion has shaped their own politics. The rest of the magazine … Read more
A Harvard-MIT research group has published its first journal article using data from the first course offered on edX, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics. At the core of edX’s mission is to use the massive amounts of data generated from student course usage to better understand learning and to improve both on-campus and online learning. The … Read more
Turkey has woken up from its sleep during the AKP’s fascist regime. Founded in 1923, Turkey is a secular republic. Since 1946, it has maintained a multi-party democracy. The AKP (A.K.A. the Justice and Development Party) is an Islamist party elected in 2002 following the economic crisis the previous year. At first, its movements against … Read more