By Neil Gundavda, MPP ’14, Assistant Opinions Editor In President Barack Obama’s most recent State of the Union address, he outlined an ambitious yet important plan to make preschool available for every child in America. He stressed the crucial link between early education and academic success in the future. It’s a tough sell: The plan […]

By William Sentence, MPP ’14, Correspondent Harvard held an event last week entitled ‘Digital Humanities Across the Spectrum’. It is part of an explosion of interest in the area – the total number of sessions on the subject at the Modern Language Association Conference in Boston doubled to nearly 70 over the past 3 years. […]

By Litcy Kurisinkal, MPP ’13, Correspondent Inclusivity and diversity have been buzzwords in the recent years. While there have been several initiatives aimed at ensuring diversity at most Harvard graduate schools, the main focus has been on proportional representation in admissions and faculty hiring. How do students of Harvard handle their daily life issues concerning […]

By Nathan K. Finney, MC/MPA’13, Assistant News Editor and Nadir Vissanjy, MPP’14, Correspondent Here at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) we often hear of the alumni that meet the ultimate political goal in their home countries, such as former President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, or former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. There are many […]

We asked a number of students across HKS what meaning, if any, March 8 had for them. The responses we got were varied and interesting. Read on: A Day to Celebrate Women the World Over Being asked to write about the meaning that International Women’s Day held for me, I realized I actually didn’t even […]

By Zach Crowley MC-MPA ’13 and Richard Witt MC-MPA’13 Many Americans own assault rifles and large magazine clips, and no one has yet offered a widely-accepted policy for keeping these weapons away from unstable Americans who might use them for tragic purposes.  Common sense dictates that American liberty must be preserved, but common sense also […]

By Cristina Garmendia, MPP ’13, Correspondent Mat Morgan took it as a good sign when Forbes told him the headshot he provided them was terrible. A few weeks and one hastily-taken replacement photo later – courtesy of a friend with an iPhone – Morgan was recognized in Forbes Magazine for being one of their “30 […]

By Anthony Barrows, MC/MPA ’13, Staff Writer Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but HKS students know that we don’t need a manufactured holiday to give us an excuse for a nice night out with a sweetheart. These three restaurants are all fine places to impress a date. Marliave One of my favorite restaurants of […]

The announcement of Geoffrey Canada as the HKS 2013 Graduation Speaker evoked quite a bit of discussion.  In a Harvard Kennedy School group on Facebook.com, a thread on the choice of speaker exploded – at last count, there were 47 comments. We invited quite a few of these students to share their views with the […]

 By Zaher Nahlé, MC/MPA’13, Staff Writer  I sat down with Kenneth Feinberg, currently a lecturer of law at Harvard Law School (HLS), for an exclusive interview with The Citizen. Feinberg was teaching a J-term course on Advanced Dispute Systems Design at HLS. Feinberg has a long list of accomplishments. He has served as the Special […]

By The Citizen Staff Harvard University is taking steps to address a resounding concern among the student body about responsibly investing the university’s $30.7 billion endowment managed by the Harvard Management Company (HMC). Recently, HMC created a new position called the Vice President (VP) of Sustainable Investing, a week after the very first student-initiated referendum […]

By Deloris Wilson, MPP’14, Contributor With a packed house, the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum welcomed a screening of the award-winning documentary, “The House I Live In.” Acclaimed by The New York Times as “fearless,” the film examines the economic and political perpetuation of the War on Drugs, as well as its detrimental effects. With […]