When I founded the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy in the mid-1980s, Hispanic America was a largely unknown and underappreciated force on the American political landscape. Some demographers were beginning to note that our growth trajectory across the nation was potentially game changing, but the vast majority of American policy makers, opinion leaders, and the […]

In May 2012, eleven students of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University visited El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as part of a Leadership Service Seminar (LSS) program sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the offices of the Academic Dean and the Dean of Students.

Maurice Lim Miller is a social innovator who, as founder and CEO of the Family Independence Initiative, enables low-income families to build security and stability. Mr. Lim Miller ran a successful community development agency in San Francisco and Oakland, California for 22 years and was honored [1] by President Clinton for his work. He also […]

BY PATRICK KIBBE Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for a case that could be worse for the American public than Citizens United v. FEC, and unleash countless millions of special interest dollars into political campaigns. In this case ­– McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee v. FEC – Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama […]

By Ted Zagraniski, Culture Editor If you’re sick of the cookie-cutter megaplex, boy do I have a theater for you! Only in a place as unique and (quietly) bohemian as Cambridge could you find a place like this. Gone are the days when you had to dig endlessly on the Internet to find those rare […]

1. Why did you apply to the Kennedy School? Researching, teaching, advocating and implementing issues regarding education and poverty  through Teach For India, my own social enterprise called “Gurukul” (A chain of low cost schools and colleges in rural India), as an advisor to the Supreme Court of India and the National Advisory Council of India, […]

By Simon Bone, Editor-in-Chief One of the things about running a newspaper like The Citizen is that it quickly becomes apparent that while we attend a well-regarded school that eschews all polices and concepts of discrimination – when it comes to seeking volunteers for covering stories the Fourth Estate has firmly established winners and losers. […]

Dear Piers How the devil are you? What happened with your court-case in the end? Who’d have thought nuns could be so litigious. Things here are grand now that I’ve got over that little problem of thinking that “zip-code” meant to take your trousers down. I hear that little story even made it back all […]

Jieun Baek is a second-year MPP student. A Los Angeles native, Baek graduated from Harvard College in 2009, and then worked at Google for several years before coming to the Kennedy School. I spent the bulk of my summer learning about the Turkish economy in a rotational internship in Ankara. Several classmates and I had […]

By Alsherif Wahdan Alsherif Wahdan, a Mid-Career MPA student and an investment banker from Egypt, opines on the bidding system at HKS. While voicing support for the mechanism, he also offers his intriguing insights on how it can be adjusted and, therefore, be improved. The Louvre Syndrome is when excited tourists leave the famous museum […]

This summer, Fernando Berdion del Valle interned at a start-up incubator in Mexico City called Venture Institute. He followed a class of entrepreneurs and researched public-private partnerships between incubators in Mexico and the federal agency dedicated to supporting them, Institututo Nacional del Emprendedor (INADEM). You can follow him on his blog Verano Startupero. At first […]

By Jeff Kushner New and returning Kennedy School students have been greeted this semester by significant overcrowding throughout the Kennedy School, in classrooms as well as public spaces. On Friday the 20th, a number of Mid-Career MPA students voiced their concerns to the administration. During the meeting, students cited incidents of pushing and shoving, long […]