Kennedy School Review

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

BY SIBELLA MATTHEWS In 2014, the Connecticut Department of Children and Families transferred a 16-year-old girl of color known as Angel to a maximum-security adult prison.[1] Guards supervised Angel as she showered and isolated her in solitary confinement for 22 hours per day. Her offense was “delinquency,” a crime that is not serious or violent […]

BY MARK FOGEL Last July, President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe became noteworthy for his antagonism toward legacy North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies like Germany and his even more headline-grabbing press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which Trump publicly doubted Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election. However shocking these may […]

BY JEAN GUO AND RACHEL PEARL O’SHEA Digital transformation and its implications for the future of work have become the topic du jour among public policy officials, scholars, and commentators all over the world. With predictions that new technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning will threaten as many as 800 million jobs over the […]