Photo Credits: hks.harvard.edu First Place: Charles Skold, MPP 2018 I dreamed of applying to Kennedy And pictured amazing amenities. But the sum of its parts Weren’t quite state of the art— I hope this construction’s the remedy. Honorable Mention: Andrew Levine,  MPP 2017 A professor was teaching in Starr, When a booming sound came from […]

By Faheem Rathore, MPP 2017 Georgia Democratic Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis came to the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on April 14th to receive the 2017 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award and to speak about the current state of American politics. The award recognizes the contributions of great social activists who have inspired […]

Photo Credit: Presidentialpolls.com By Kelley Greenman, MPP/MBA Harvard, 2017 When Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land, came to speak in the JFK Jr. Forum on March 23, she put into words what I had been feeling since the day after election: Democrats are missing something. Hochschild told us about her experience […]

This piece was published in the 27th print volume of the Asian American Policy Review. I still recall my father’s expression of disappointment when he learned I planned to marry Tina, a multiracial, Catholic Dominican American. He never said it explicitly, but I knew he thought I was making a big mistake by marrying someone of […]

Photo Credit: https://goo.gl/IfBV3g By Ivan Rahman, MPA/MBA Stanford, 2019 You don’t mind attention. In fact, you probably like it. You enjoy being seen and known every now and then. You relish feeling special and wanted. You refresh your Facebook page, after you’ve just posted something about yourself, to see how many likes you’ve accumulated. Also, […]

Asset values may plateau, and we have to begin rethinking the investment value of HDB flats.

Despite incurring heavy losses, Hezbollah stands to gain from its participation in the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad.

Foreword to the 27th Volume The Roots of Asian America “There was a time when the term ‘Asian American’ was not merely a demographic category, but a fight you were picking with the world.”[1] We live in turbulent political times, and whether we are looking for it or not, a fight seems to be brewing. […]

BY HAIYANG ZHANG The Trump Administration recently retracted its promise to label China as a currency manipulator—and rightly so. While there was merit to such a claim ten or twenty years ago, labeling China a currency manipulator in 2017 simply misses the mark. In its semiannual foreign exchange report presented to the Congress on April […]

By Wei Luo, MPP 2017 On March 22, the HKS community gathered in the JFK Jr. Forum for a discussion on the future of U.S.-China relations. The event was moderated by HKS professor Arne Westad and featured Graham Allison (director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), Niall Ferguson (Senior Faculty Fellow at […]

According to Robert Ford, former US Ambassador to Syria, there is “not much” the United States can do to shape the outcome of the conflict.

BY IVAN RAHMAN Having worked as a teacher and school leader, I attended Harvard’s 2017 Social Enterprise Conference (SECON) with the hope of discovering solutions to some of education’s most pressing problems. Instead, the conference raised a series of thought-provoking questions about education. Does innovation in public education preserve, or even exacerbate, the status quo […]