By Neil Gundavda Like many holidays, Thanksgiving is both contrived and hypocritical.   From birth, American children are bombarded with cartoonish scenes of seamless integration of the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans in 1621. The bountiful harvest did not result in 400 years of peaceful and charitable relations between white settlers and indigenous Americans, […]

By Nathan Finney There was a very visual display of the military cohort in this year’s class on the first day back from Veteran’s Day.  All shades of colors graced black and blue uniforms, drawing the eye of many at the Kennedy School.  This display was organized by the Armed Forces Committee and was designed […]

By Jon Murad One of the amazing things about Harvard is the degree to which it can be both immutable and ever-changing. In the next five years, big changes may be coming to the Kennedy School.   The school has just completed a new campus framework plan that lays out some of the challenges associated […]

A man in a freshly pressed Calvin Klein suit, sporting Aviator sunglasses, stands on the corner of a busy street cradling his laptop case and yelling over the din into his Blackberry.  Moments later he gets into his new Honda and races away.  This could be an observation made on the streets of New York […]

What makes Nelson Mandela a remarkable man? The African National Congress (“ANC”), which ledthe resistance movement against apartheid, is the presentruling party in South Africa. After joining the ANC in 1942, Nelson Mandela initially followed a path of non-violent resistance to end apartheid in South Africa. By 1961, with this approach proving unsuccessful, Mandela co-founded […]

A More Connected World Is a Better World In a May 2010 opinion post for the Washington Post, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in response to the public’s growing concern over user privacy: Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their […]

Abstract: In order to protect national interests, the REAL ID Act of 2005 was enacted to help prevent terrorists from coming into the United States. The act curbed abuses to the existing asylum system. Changes stemming from REAL ID heightened the credibility and corroboration standards for asylum and provided immigration judges more discretion in denying […]

Abstract: Recent policies affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults and people living with HIV promise a new era of reform. From California Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s antidiscrimination HIV-related bills and the sweeping changes of the Affordable Care Act to U.S. Senator Michael Bennet’s LGBT Elder Americans Act and the federal administration’s recent regulations, […]

BY AHMED MOOR It was “one of these compressed moments, where an entire story is told in a headline,” says Harvard Kennedy School Professor Richard Parker. “The story narrative is so simple—and so powerful—that there is no way that Romney can easily escape.” To hear more of Professor Parker’s discussion of Romney’s “47%” comment, listen […]

By Chrissie Long Down with the donkeys and the elephants: It’s time for a new beast in American politics. Disillusioned with the same old two-party system, many Americans have begun looking for alternatives. Among them is political advisor and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Mark McKinnon who says that our current political system […]

By Citizen Staff Kennedy School students secured the title of this year’s graduate kickball champions, defeating ten other graduate school teams from across Harvard. The 2nd annual Graduate Student Kickball Tournament was sponsored jointly by the Graduate Commons Program and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A total of 11 teams from various Harvard graduate […]

By Jennifer Hoegen Regardless of which candidate wins the election, bipartisan support is needed to move the United States forward on anti-trafficking legislation and services. Hopefully, the election season will spur politicians to jump into action and pay attention to the need to pass the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Twelve years ago, the […]