Dealing with the Trade Deficit
Fighting U.S.-China trade imbalance demands long-term strategy
Articles By: Jimmy Wu 
Jimmy Wu '12 was World Editor of the Harvard Political Review in 2011. He is a economics concentrator living in Winthrop House (Lions for the Cup!). Born in China, Jimmy moved to the U.S. at age four and has lived in New York every since. He is a passionate Yankees fan, along with a supporter of the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers. Jimmy enjoys The West Wing, Chuck and many other T.V. shows. He also enjoys traveling to many different parts of the world.
Bowing to the Chinese Century?
Thomas Friedman, yesterday, in this Times column, found his rhetorical flourish yet lost his practical sensibility. In a fairly particularly common theme for him, Friedman praises the autocratic, oppressive Chinese government as efficient and resourceful, while decrying “our poll-driven, toxically partisan, cable-TV-addicted, money-corrupted political class”. Friedman goes on further to suggest that politics today in the US is nothing more [...]
Petraeus’ Headache
Chris Cilizza, who has writes the political blog The Daily Fix for The Washington Post, this week named General Petraeus as the man who had “The Worst Week in Washington”. Truthfully speaking, President Obama’s decision to name General Petraeus as the head of military operations in Afghanistan leaves the General in an impossible situation. After brilliant tactical strategies and unwavering [...]
Obama’s Oil Spill Talk
While anything from uninspiring to boring has been used to define President Obama’s primetime speech on Tuesday, Gail Collin’s has a great column on it, I believe that the speech was not just flawed because it was unexciting, but rather because it was reveals fundamental disconnects from the Obama Administration. First, the rhetoric of the speech rang something along the [...]
Democrats in Hiding
The New York Times had a very interesting article recently detailing how Democrats have made the conscious choice to avoid town hall style meetings in recent and future Congressional recesses. Traditionally, these times were great opportunities for representatives and senators to return home to their respective districts and states to get intimate contact with voters and gauge the mood of [...]
Disgrace. Charlie Crist’s Ungainly Political Manueverings
Disgrace is the only word apt to describe Governor Charlie Crist these days. After being passed up as John McCain’s VP choice, perhaps the apex of his political success, Crist decided to abandon running for reelection for the governorship of Florida, a position he would likely have won easily. Instead, Crist continued a lifelong power-grab, running for the US Senate [...]
Ousted for Being Gay?
Such a headline is perhaps not so surprising coming from elements of the Republican Party’s religious right, see Larry Craig. The uneasy balance of openly and forcefully opposing gay marriage while still attempting to be accepting of gay Republicans like the Log Cabin Republicans has made it difficult for many leaders. The fact remains that being exposed as a gay [...]
Will We Ever Be Ready for President Mark Warner?
That’s right. That’s Mark Warner, junior Democratic Senator from Virginia, who won an astonishing 65% of the vote in 2008 (besting Obama by 12 percent), after a highly acclaimed term of Governor from 2002-2006. That’s the same Mark Warner who was rumored to be considering a Presidential run in 2008, a favorite among the establishment elite for his mixture of [...]
Steven Levitt’s Solution to Climate Change
Professor Steven D. Levitt, an eminent popular economist from the University of Chicago and co-author of the widely successful books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics gave a lecture here on Monday. Despite being sparsely publicized, the lecture attracted around 200 people from around the campus, an obvious testament to the popularity of Levitt’s unorthodox economics style. While I was impressed with Professor [...]
An Enlightened Approach to Illegal Immigration
Why the politics of immigration must be reconciled with reality
What 1937 can tell us about today
I was taking a Sporcle quiz the other day (something I do often) on all of TIME Magazine’s Persons of the Year throughout its history. Beyond the predictable leaders like FDR, Hitler, Stalin and Churchill, giants of the World War II era, there was another leader in their midst: 1937, Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of the Republic of China on and [...]
Compassionate Conservatism Confounded
Faith-based initiatives face tough political realities
Feeding the Media Frenzy
How drug policy made in response to crisis misses the mark In 2008, 50,000 kilograms of cocaine and 660,000 kilograms of marijuana were seized within the United States. According to Drug Enforcement Administration statistics, that same year also saw 26,425 domestic drug arrests. These staggering numbers might seem to suggest that the United States is aggressively combating its drug problem. [...]
