Photo Credit: Australian Labor Party By Neil Thomas, MPP 2018  Now is not a good time to be a refugee. In the United States, the world’s leading country for refugee resettlement, president–elect Donald Trump promises to shut the door on those fleeing the Syrian conflict and impose ‘extreme vetting’ and ideological screening for all new […]

The number of refugees is at its highest-ever level, at more than 20 million worldwide. The Syrian civil war is the biggest source of refugees today, and neighboring countries Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey bear much of the brunt. Syrian refugees now represent roughly 20% of Lebanon’s population, which has put enormous strains on the small […]

Innovation is now at the epicentre of Angola’s drive towards economic diversification. Innovators build business from the ground-up; creating new job opportunities and contributing to a diverse, healthy supply chain. It’s a model that made America the world’s biggest economy and has sustained the developed economies through good times and bad. Indicative of how important […]

BY JAMES PAGANO As the dust settles on the 2016 Presidential Election, the Democratic Party will begin a process of deep self-reflection. If the past week is any indication, the party will analyze what happened in 2016 with a specific focus on improving its future electoral prospects among rural white working-class voters. The shocking upset […]

By Ivan Rahman, MPP 2018 America has recently elected a new president after a turbulent election cycle. At HKS, there is one other presidency that students may be curious about. That’s the presidency of Arohi Sharma, MPP 2017. Originally from Torrance, CA, Arohi serves as the President of the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG). The […]

Embed from Getty Images   For Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, enemies are everywhere. His speeches and official comments are littered with references to the hostile elements lurking in Turkey, the so-called “parallel state.” Erdoğan has long used the “parallel state” term to refer to the movement founded in the early 1970s by Turkish Muslim […]

By Wei Luo, MPP 2017 As the fall classes wrap up, students may be wondering how to make the most of the January term (J-term) period between winter break and spring semester. The Citizen recently spoke to Mary Beaulieu, Assistant Dean and Director of the Office of Career Advancement (OCA), and Janice Vaughn, OCA’s Senior […]

By Ivan Rahman, MPP 2018 I am jealous of Republicans at Harvard. I am jealous because, being the political minority at Harvard, they get to have their views fundamentally challenged almost every day. Conversely, my more Democratic and liberal classmates and I typically reinforce each other’s perspectives. And if we ever challenge one another ideologically, […]

By John Dong, MPP 2018 On November 10, 2016, HKS Dean Doug Elmendorf hosted the annual All-School Reception at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse. The event gave student, faculty, and staff an opportunity to “come together as a community and enjoy each other’s company.” In his brief opening remarks, Dean Elmendorf expressed his […]

Embed from Getty Images With last week’s election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, the anxiety of Arab and Muslim Americans was perhaps the timeliest topic of discussion at the tenth annual Harvard Arab Weekend. In a panel on Saturday, entitled “Arab and Muslim America: Facing Today’s Challenges,” four activists and professors spoke passionately on the […]

Photo Credits: NBC News and LA Times By Hudson Leung (MPA/MBA Tuck, 2019) and Wilson Tong (MPA/MBA Wharton, 2018) It was 5:30AM on Election Day, and we were both awake and energized, with just a few hours to go before we could cap a long season of campaigning. One of us (Hudson) was preparing to […]

  In times of conflict, humanitarian organizations aim to meet the “basic needs” of those in crisis. But too often this model of emergency intervention ignores chronic conditions – and especially the pressing question of mental health, according to Fouad M. Fouad, a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of […]