By Aaron Miller, MPP ‘13 Think like a honey badger – I just don’t give a shit, I just need to talk to her. She’s independent, she’s open-minded, she knows what she wants, I know what she wants – ME. Let’s roll. Wait a minute. Was she one of those girls – wait, women – […]

By Mark Truman, MPP ‘13 Last week, around seventy Harvard students walked out of Ec 10 – the popular economics class taught by renowned economist Gregory Mankiw – in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.  In an open letter to Professor Mankiw, the students cited their “discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory […]

By Shloka Nath, News Editor, MPP ‘13 There is something strange afoot at the Kennedy School. And no, this is not a reference to the fact that there is less free food available than any other year prior (painfully true, as it is) or the fact that the coffee machine in the Study now breaks […]

By Carli Hetland, Assistant Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 As the sun set on November 9th, the 53rd day of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in Zuccotti Park, the Occupy Harvard movement kicked off its first official day. Approximately 800 Harvard students, faculty, staff, and members of the community gathered in peaceful assembly on the Harvard Law […]

 By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA’12 “Make the world a better place!” For most of us, this is the vision that drew us to the Harvard Kennedy School to continue our studies.  For some however, the need to make a difference in the world stretches beyond current academic measures. One band of such student activists […]

By Dharana Rijal, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Students and community members gathered on Wednesday to discuss the urgent need to change the current portrayal of women in the mass media. The screening of the documentary Miss Representation facilitated this conversation, which was attended by more than seventy. Miss Representation exposes how the media—through both direct […]

By Matt Bieber, News Writer, MPP/MDiv ‘13 In the early 1960′s, Marshall Ganz dropped out of Harvard to join the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He then spent 16 years working with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers before returning to Harvard to finish his BA and earn a  Ph.D. in sociology. During the […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 In the first issue of the Citizen, on September 20, I wrote something that seemed obvious to me at the time: “The Red Sox will play on into October.” The column was about the movie Moneyball, and I concluded the column by writing: The book Moneyball was all […]

By Alexi White, Opinions Editor, MPP ‘13 Kennedy School professors are in high demand. As some of the foremost experts on public policy, they are called upon constantly to provide private consulting to governments, businesses and non-profits around the world. At the same time, journalists and the pubic rely on them for independent perspectives on […]

By Sujoyini Mandal, Opinions Columnist, MPP ‘13 On October 4th, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a critical bilateral arrangement that has far reaching implications for both Afghan and South Asian security. This two-way “strategic partnership deal” incorporates a wide range of political, economic and trade issues, and comes […]

By Marianne Caballero, MPP ‘12 It happened again. I’ve been in the States for a year and I thought I was over this. I thought I knew what I liked by now. That nothing could throw me off course. I was admitted to Harvard, darn it; this shouldn’t be so hard. I’d expected the course […]

By Dharana Rijal, News Writer, MPP ‘13 President Obama signed free trade agreements with three countries, Colombia, South Korea, and Panama last week following approval from both the House of Representatives and the Senate the week before. These agreements bring the total number of bilateral deals that the US has with other countries to 20. […]