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For our final Spotlight of the year, we bring you a portrait of some of the incredible staff here at The Citizen. They selflessly gave their time to bring you the news, opinion, and culture relevant to you throughout the year. (Please take a moment to visit www.theHKScitizen.com to read profiles of other extraordinary students […]

No, you’re not dreaming. It’s almost finished. Remember that very first time a thousand years ago when you first set foot in the Littauer building and realized why MC-Escher was not better known for architecture? Reflect upon when you got a B for that paper you’d spent weeks on, while your friend who just rewrote […]

By Jieun Baek Let’s be honest. KSSG probably has not been top of mind for most of you, and you’re probably wondering what in the world this body of 34 elected HKS students do. At the beginning of the year, 34 of your classmates asked what they could do to serve you, and ran for […]

President         Jieun Baek, MPP2 (56%) Shashank Shukla, MC MPA (44%) Executive Vice President        Simon R. Bone, MC MPA (36%) Maggie Williams, MPP2 (64%) VP International Student Affairs Mario Jaimes, MPA1 (59%) Lance Li, MPP1 (41%)   VP Technology and Operations          Shradha Balakrishnan, MPA2 (61%) George Xue, MC MPA (39%)   The […]

President         Jieun Baek, MPP2 (56%) Shashank Shukla, MC MPA (44%)   Executive Vice President        Simon R. Bone, MC MPA (36%) Maggie Williams, MPP2 (64%)   VP International Student Affairs Mario Jaimes, MPA1 (59%) Lance Li, MPP1 (41%)   VP Technology and Operations          Shradha Balakrishnan, MPA2 (61%) George Xue, MC MPA (39%) […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 In the first issue of the Citizen, on September 20, I wrote something that seemed obvious to me at the time: “The Red Sox will play on into October.” The column was about the movie Moneyball, and I concluded the column by writing: The book Moneyball was all […]

By Imran Sarwar, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Preliminary tests of a new malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have raised hopes about widespread prevention of the disease, especially in infants and young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. On 18th October, the results of the vaccine’s phase 3 trial were released to the public, establishing that the vaccination gave protection […]

By Chrissie Long Both Mike and Marisa Conway are convinced that end-of-life satisfaction won’t come from a traditional career in a Washington, D.C. office building.  A 9-to-5 job may be for some people. But they want something more tangible. In between teaching typing skills to adults in Kawes, Mali and running nutrition campaigns in Mandiana, […]

While recent events have triggered concerns over democracy and fundamental freedoms in Singapore, Seow Yongzhi argues that these debates conflate the terms “democracy” and “liberalism”. Democracies, as Yongzhi points out, can be highly illiberal. Instead, what Singaporeans want is not necessarily democracy, but liberty – the right to voice their disagreements.

“Until very recently Singapore’s past was a matter of supreme indifference for most Singaporeans simply because they believed this island never really had a history worth remembering…” – S. Rajaratnam, ‘The Uses and Abuses of the Past’, 1984. A quick Google search for “slavery in Singapore” returns references to “Modern-day Slavery”, as many have termed […]

Post-GE2015, talk has primarily focused on the euphoric victory of the People’s Action Party (PAP) and analysis of its success factors. Not much analysis, however, has been published from the voter perspective. A common dilemma for the typical voter is having to choose between their needs and their wants: the candidate most able to serve […]

When the media never fully determined how to cover the first Asian-American Democrat running for president nationally, it created a plethora of challenges for Andrew Yang’s historic campaign. Despite receiving disproportionate obstacles for a candidate of his polling level, Yang resiliently left a legacy that shaped national discourse on policy and empowered other Asian-Americans to […]