By Matt Bieber, News Writer, MPP/MDiv ‘13 Beginning in 2003, Democrat Artur Davis represented Alabama’s 7th District for four terms in Congress. Following a defeat in Alabama’s 2010 gubernatorial primary, Davis retired from politics. Late last year, he left the Democratic Party and became an independent. He is currently an IOP Fellow. MATT BIEBER:   It’s […]

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ’13 One of the John F. Kennedy School’s greatest assets is the star-power of its faculty. Whether they come from an academic or professional background, our professors are at the forefront of their fields, and that adds to the prestige of both the individual and the school. Unfortunately, possession […]

By Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller, Culture Editor, MC/MPA ‘12 The story goes that a long-haired, barefoot young Boston University student folksinger showed up at jazz coffeehouse Club 47 in Harvard Square in the late 50s. She got herself on stage and asked for another chance the following Sunday. Joan Baez convinced the club manager to give […]

By Irene Shih, Editor-in-Chief, MPP ’13 For someone like me who cares naught for sports, my Linsanity seems to come from nowhere. I speak for no one else, but know that my own pride bursts from an Asian American’s quiet desperation. This sounds odd, of course, when we consider the hierarchy of oppression. I have […]

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 The days are getting longer, and not because spring is nearly here. I mean the length of one solar day—the time it takes for the earth to spin around exactly once—is getting longer, and we have the moon to blame. As we turn, the moon’s gravity pulls the […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 Our lives changed on February 4. That’s the day we discovered Jeremy Lin. Oh, sure, we weren’t the first to discover him – much like Columbus and North America, there were plenty of other people who had laid eyes on Jeremy Lin before the white Anglo-Europeans first figured […]

By Julian Angel Lopez, MPP ’13 As winter fades away and spring begins anew, so does the mad dash for students to secure a summer internship. Unfortunately, unpaid summer internships have become the new norm in recent years. With youth unemployment hovering near 16% and entry-level jobs becoming increasingly scarce, employers now have the power […]

Delights of the intelligentsia’s social life in the City of Lights – A fiction based on real life memories and observations By Cassandre Pignon, MPA ‘13 In my native country of France, people take dinner conversation very, very seriously. My American friend Annika called me in a panic yesterday, barely hiding the nervousness in her voice. The issue was indeed nothing small. She […]

By Shloka Nath, News Editor, MPP’13 As of March 1st, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will join a slew of campuses across the U.S. in instituting a full smoking ban across its campus. The new policy, which closely aligns with similar changes at the Harvard Medical School, will ban smoking on all […]

By Cristina Garmendia, News Writer, MPP ‘13 There are no direct flights to Park City, Utah from Boston.  Luckily for our resident film buffs, on March 2-3 a bit of Sundance can be seen at the Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum (GSCFF), hosted by Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. The GSCFF will bring together social […]

1. Is the MPP core worth it? This is an important question, and one both professor’s Dick Light and Dan Levy are looking into. To assess student learning, last year’s first-year MPP students were given two identical tests, one before they took the core and one after. Two sources who preferred not to be named […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA’12 What started as a peaceful afternoon on March 11th, 2011 quickly became one of the most devastating and traumatic days Japan has ever seen. A tsunami crashed into the beautiful landscape of vast rice fields and seaside houses.  Massive waves tore buildings from their foundations and tossed cars into […]