By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer, MPP’14 Though graduation is still three months away, it’s time to begin booking hotels for out-of-town guests. With Boston’s large student population, hotels become saturated in May and prices begin to climb. You’ll be elbowing other gown-laden students and their camera-carrying parents for the marginal hotels, if you leave this […]

By Alexandra Raphel, MPP ’14, Staff Writer Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, spoke in the JFK Jr. Forum on Feb. 19 about U.S.-Pakistani relations, as both countries prepare for the upcoming U.S. troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. In her remarks, Ambassador Rehman highlighted the various challenges Pakistan continues to face as […]

By Zachary Crowley, MC/MPA’13 If you have had the opportunity to speak with David King, you know he tells it to you straight.  So when he responded to this reporter’s prying question with “You know I can’t talk about that,” I knew I was on to something interesting. King wears many hats.  In addition to […]

By Amélie de Montchalin, MPA’14, Correspondent On March 2 and 3, Harvard will host its first European Conference. Organized by students from the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Business School and The Fletcher School –Tufts University, this event aims at showing that Europe is not just about crisis, and that some interesting projects are being […]

By Ami Valdemoro, MPP ’13, Correspondent “If you see something, say something.” I heard this public service announcement every day for five years during my commute into Washington, D.C. I knew that the Metro officials had to sound the alarm over suspicious behavior or unattended bags, but I never really thought about it outside of […]

By Nathan Finney, MC/MPA’13 One of the greatest attitudinal skills learnt, that I shall be taking away from my time at the Kennedy School is a drive to help others.  I know many students came here with this trait ingrained in their DNA, but this sense was more dormant in mine.  My experience with helping […]

By Billy Pope, MC/MPA ’13, Correspondent On the July 17, 2012, I walked up the steps leading to the Kennedy School for the first time.  I squeezed the worn door handle in my palm and the gravity of the moment hit me.  I froze.  I couldn’t go in.  I needed to clear my head.  It […]

By Nick Wilson, Staff Writer, MPP ’14 This may come as a bit of a shock, but in the 32-year history of the American Repertory Theater, the celebrated pillar of the local theatre community has never staged a Tennessee Williams play. Armed with some serious star power thanks to Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield and […]

By Adrian Arroyo, Opinions Columnist, MPP ’13 Here’s the dilemma: there’s an ogre. You can’t get away. He offers you a choice—die quick or die slow? Choose the former, and he crushes your head with his club. Death is swift and relatively painless. Choose the latter and you live a bit longer, albeit in horrible […]

By Jaya Bhagat, MC-MPA and Mason Fellow ’13 HKS Dean David T. Ellwood announced this morning that Geoffrey Canada, the President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, will be delivering the 2013 graduation address on the afternoon of May 29 at the Harvard Kennedy School. Canada is an American social activist, educator and reformer […]

By Alexandra Raphel, MPP ’14, Correspondent Kennedy School student Varun Bhandari (MPA ‘14) is part of a team selected to represent Harvard University in the prestigious Hult Prize regional finals this March. The finalists were selected from over 10,000 applications from 150 countries and also include teams from Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan […]

By Anthony Barrows, MC/MPA ’13, Staff Writer Boston’s musical history is rich: its black musician’s union counted Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington as members; Harvard Square’s Club Passim was the epicenter of the 60s folk scene; rock clubs churned out the Cars and Aerosmith in the 70s; and Allston spawned thriving hardcore and third-wave ska […]