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Andrea Titus spent the summer interning with the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP).  She focused on impact evaluation of vocational training programs for women in rural Punjab. I’ve spent a lot of this summer thinking about mobility.  Oftentimes, I’m thinking about the challenges of getting around in Lahore as a single woman without […]

By Tim Purinton Bill McKibben, Harvard graduate, former New Yorker columnist and now Middlebury College professor recently packed Sanders Theater and also packed a punch directly at Harvard University. McKibben the unlikely (self-admitted) and outspoken leader of the climate change movement painted a dour picture of climate change and carbon pollution, “By the end of […]

By Tim Purinton, MPP ’14, Staff Writer When the recent federal government shutdown prevented United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack from delivering his scheduled lecture on “Rural Innovation”, the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics was quick to respond with a panel of HKS experts to explore the causes of the situation. The panel on […]

By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer In a future European Union, there cannot be countries that are creditors and there cannot be countries that are debtors. There cannot be countries that design their budgets in silos or banks that are governed by incongruent, contrasting regulations. If Europe is looking to build a financial system that constituents […]

Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, spoke at the Kennedy School last Friday in an event sponsored by the Office for Career Advancement and the Center for Public Leadership. She described how she turned the topic of her senior thesis into an organization that trains thousands of teachers each year and places them […]

Simon R. Bone, Editor-In-Chief The current political stalemate in Washington has made headlines around the world and possibly threatens a global economic  recession. The Republicans are correct in their assertion that debt is at too high a level but they neglect to mention that it was the last GOP administration who drove up that spending. […]

By Simon R. Bone, Editor-in-Chief HKS students enjoying pre-game festivities in Memorial Park on the evening of Saturday 28th September were caught in the aftermath of a violent crime. “We missed the attack by about five minutes. There was no one at the park when we arrived. The first we heard about the stabbing is […]

By MaryRose Mazzola The West prefers Egypt under military rule to control by a democratically elected candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, linguist and political scholar Noam Chomsky told a full audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kresge Auditorium on October 4th. In the discussion, which centered on the past two and a half years […]

By Ted Zagraniski, Culture Editor If you’re sick of the cookie-cutter megaplex, boy do I have a theater for you! Only in a place as unique and (quietly) bohemian as Cambridge could you find a place like this. Gone are the days when you had to dig endlessly on the Internet to find those rare […]

1. Why did you apply to the Kennedy School? Researching, teaching, advocating and implementing issues regarding education and poverty  through Teach For India, my own social enterprise called “Gurukul” (A chain of low cost schools and colleges in rural India), as an advisor to the Supreme Court of India and the National Advisory Council of India, […]

By Simon Bone, Editor-in-Chief One of the things about running a newspaper like The Citizen is that it quickly becomes apparent that while we attend a well-regarded school that eschews all polices and concepts of discrimination – when it comes to seeking volunteers for covering stories the Fourth Estate has firmly established winners and losers. […]

Dear Piers How the devil are you? What happened with your court-case in the end? Who’d have thought nuns could be so litigious. Things here are grand now that I’ve got over that little problem of thinking that “zip-code” meant to take your trousers down. I hear that little story even made it back all […]