Politics of Food
What we can learn from food movements
Articles By: Beatrice Walton 
Beatrice Walton is the Covers Editor for the Harvard Political Review. She is a Government and Slavic Languages & Literatures joint concentrator. Originally from the small lake town of Skaneateles, NY, she now spends her time backpacking through Russia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and other areas in Eurasia, while blogging and editing for the HPR.
In Defense of Occupy
Economic inequality is something we should all be talking about. Occupy Wall Street is making it nearly unavoidable, and that's a good thing.
The American Ruling Class
“Is there an American ruling class?” and if so, “What does its existence foretell about the state of a society increasingly burdened by man-made catastrophes?”
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Forgotten, But Not Yet Fixed
The scars of the Bosnian War have faded. Bosnia & Herzegovina, however, remains as dysfunctional as ever.
Numbered Days: Bailing Out Europe’s Last Dictator
Once a mark of his power, Belarus’ economy, now in near free fall, may finally bring an end to Lukashenko
(Sting’s) Intro to US-Russian Relations
Socially, relations between the U.S. and Russia have come an incredibly long way over the past two decades. Political relations, however, still have a long way to go.
Governor Bill Richardson
The former New Mexico governor, Ambassador to the UN, and Secretary of Energy on energy policy and foreign affairs
Food Deserts, Annenberg, and a Spending Problem Worth Noticing
Reducing the economic and social burden of Type II diabetes in America starts at 7-Elevens.
History, Right Now
Must watch this: Police and Protestors Clash in Cairo And this: Dramatic Footage of Egypt Clashes Is “Obama Blowing it Again in the Middle East”? Thoughts on Egypt, please:
Estonia: A Move to the Euro, and Europe?
When I visited Estonia four weeks ago, I witnessed the bittersweet, albeit largely temperate, passing of the kroon, Estonia’s national currency since 1992. As I, and indeed most of the country, rushed to dump my krooni before Jan. 1st and the euro arrived, I nevertheless held on to a two-krooni note—a relic, no doubt, of a time that once was. After ... Read More
No We Can’t? Searching for Obama’s Audacity in the Post-Midterm World
Immediately following the midterm elections, newspaper headlines from around the world told the tale of an American president embarrassingly “defeated” and “apologetic” of his presidency thus far. From titles such as “No We Can’t” in the Kuwait Times to “Obama Admits He Needs ‘to Do a Better Job’ After Election Beating” in the London Guardian, to pouting faces of Obama ... Read More
Poland: Disillusion Trumps Obama’s Popularity
On my first night living in Poland last summer, I asked my host mother, a 44-year-old Polish elementary schoolteacher and mother of two, her opinions of President Barack Obama as we sat in her rural farmhouse eating slabs of unidentifiable meat on rye bread. She gave me two responses, meaning, she pointed to the two words in my Larousse Polsko-Angielski dictionary that ... Read More
