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By Tommy Tobin This article began as a personal journey and ended up being a mystery through time. On an unassuming Kennedy School afternoon, I happened to cross from Littauer to Belfer on the ground floor. As I looked up, a sign greeted my gaze with the enigmatic line, “Thank You for Using the Ground […]

By Tim Purinton With compelling rhetoric and a stinging frontal attack, John Kerry is taking a deep plunge into environmental issues and in the process redefining the role of Secretary of State.  While many squabble over his diplomacy deliverables, Kerry is making a definitive case that the most powerful environmentalist in President Obama’s inner circle […]

By Nathan Finney I can hear my heart in my ears, blocking out anything but the swoosh-swoosh, swoosh-swoosh. My ears pop with every breath. My shirt clings to me as it drips with perspiration, weighing down my exhausted body. Preoccupied with my pain and fatigue, I don’t hear the sound. People around me scurry in […]

By Varun Bhandari Graduation is one of the key inflection points in our journey towards adulthood. For many of us, this could be our last time spent in an academic environment. It is a time for reflection about the experience we shared, and the journey ahead. I remember so clearly the first week we spent […]

By Michelle Barmazel On the afternoon of April 12th, 2014, I stood quaking in my shoes about to step on stage for my 8 minute TEDx talk at the School of Education.  I was at the TEDxHGSE conference and I thought back to how I wound up in this most uncomfortable yet exhilarating situation. In […]

By Mai Mislang A group of HKs students led by MC-MPA and Arizona resident Maria Syms, visited this western state from April 10 to 13, 2014. They exchanged views with leading Republican stalwarts in Phoenix, visited a charter school, indulged in authentic Mexican food, and marveled at stunning vistas, cacti and red rocks. The 90 […]

By Simon R. Bone Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center played host to legendary director Steven Spielberg on Tuesday evening where he discussed the many influences his wide range of experiences had played on his varied and award winning portfolio of work. In a packed auditorium he detailed how his film career started early with him filming […]

By Maria Syms “I’m a great believer in national service… and I see in you a greater willingness to serve our country than in my generation.”  This was the message from Senator John McCain in his conversation with Jill Dougherty at the Institute of Politics forum event last Wednesday.  The Senator discussed an array of […]

By Simon R. Bone Last Friday HKS held the inaugural annual Latin American Conference entitled “Rethinking Latin America”. The purpose of the conference was to create a space for dialogue and awareness at Harvard’s Kennedy School community regarding the challenges, successes and opportunities of recent Latin America’s policies. Its panel talks focussed on four areas: […]

  BY JOSH RUDOLPH The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. – John Maynard Keynes Friday afternoons tend to be subdued affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. But the afternoon […]

 Abstract Several endemic tropical diseases retard economic progress by devastating childhood development and also by reducing productivity in adults, especially among agricultural workers.  One of these diseases – malaria  – a major cause of death and disability – has been under attack on a large scale in Africa since 2005.  This attack has been accompanied […]

Chad’s withdrawal from the international mission opens door for regional terrorist groups. As sectarian violence in the Central African Republic continues to spiral out of control, militant jihadist groups such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have taken notice. They have issued condemnations on several occasions, blaming France for […]