Saturday, June 2nd, 2018, the day I flew back to Mexico City hoping to finally settle here. I had spent two years in Boston, at the Harvard Kennedy School, and before that, another two years at the World Bank, in Washington DC. On Sunday, I went to a committee meeting in my apartment building. The […]

BY ZIAD RESLAN Adnan lifts his shirt to reveal bruising covering almost his entire body.  The only interruption to the purple are deep red scars, the result, he says, of trying to cross the border between Serbia and Hungary 19 times.  Each time, he has been apprehended, beaten up and pushed back to Serbia.  He […]

In recent years, multilateral trade agreements among African countries have become increasingly popular. In March 2018, in Kigali Rwanda, leaders gathered to sign an agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA), the biggest trade pact in the post-World Trade Organisation (WTO) era. Other initiatives are underway, including the formation of a tripartite free […]

BY DOUG LAVEY NIMBY, or “Not In My Backyard,” is a frequent theme in opposing a proposed local development. The rise of drones leads to a slight variation of this common acronym: NAMBY (“Not Above My Backyard”). As commercial and recreational drones increasingly populate the sky, a deceptively simple question arises. Where will drones fly? […]

Crazy Rich Asians has shattered recent box office records. The film grossed an estimated $117 million in its first three weeks and features an all Asian cast — something that hasn’t happened since The Joy Luck Club debuted in 1993. It has also ignited a firestorm of Asian American pride and public discourse. The story […]

BY ALYSSA DAVIS THE additional unit in Raneta Pomeroy’s backyard had always been a problem. When the Santa Cruz, California, resident bought her house in 1993, she knew that its converted garage apartment—or “flat,” as she calls it—was technically illegal. But it was also typical for this growing coastal community. For several years, her teenagers […]

BY KEVIN FRAZIER AND MASON JI As nationalist and xenophobic pressures mount, it’s on America’s youth—as voters and future diplomats—to revive the institutions and ethos that made the United States a source of international stability and cohesion. In short, Millennials and Gen Zers must become the Global Generations. As future stewards of the nation’s international […]

BY ADAM GIORGI     Adam Giorgi is a proud Minnesotan seeking the intersection of government service and comic book superheroics. He is a master in public policy student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and he swears he doesn’t draw cartoons during lectures (most of the time).   Edited by Neil Thomas

BY BEN MCGUIRE After a bruising 2016 election, a cascade of Democratic victories has given progressive activists reason to hope for future elections, and the use of new mobilization and engagement technologies in those campaigns is getting a lot of attention. Virginia Republicans barely held their gerrymandered majority after grassroots volunteers across the left powered […]

 BY HAIYANG ZHANG In China’s recent 19th Party Congress, President Xi Jinping spoke confidently about blazing “a new trail for other developing countries to achieve modernization” and providing “a new option for other countries and nations who want to speed up their development.”[1] China increasingly asserts itself as an important development partner to other developing […]

BY RAWAN ZEINE On May 30, 2018, as I sat in my apartment in Cambridge, MA, I scrolled through my Instagram photos of my home, Jordan. Usually, photos with the caption “Jordan is beautiful” are images of Jordan’s nature, heritage, and historical sites. But in May, it was different. The caption “Jordan is beautiful” was an […]

BY AUSTIN DAVIS US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has unchecked authority over thousands of people seeking asylum in the United States. The NAACP, among others, has also condemned Sessions’ history of “racist comments,” and he has spoken out on multiple occasions against asylum seekers as a group. So how has Sessions used his power? To […]