Harvard’s Look at Repression in the Middle East
Reporting on the Harvard Arab Week
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The Big Stick and Its Growth Under President Obama
President Obama has been way more interventionist than Candidate Obama said he would be.
Senator McCain’s Mythic Reagan
Would the Gipper really be disappointed in the absence of hawkish tendencies in this Republican field?
Three Weeks of HPRgument
We began The HPRgument with the goal of creating a new space on campus for lively discussion of the things that matter — political, cultural, or Harvardian Since we began three weeks ago, debate on this site has been spirited and engaged: we’ve taken on the racial politics of Avatar, praised Obama’s “shrewd” bank tax, discussed the “ Sociology of [...]
The Question Everyone’s Asking
(Other than “what’s going to happen to Conan?”) Following revelations that the underwear bomber was fitted in Yemen, everyone is (or should be) asking: what is going on over there? The answer turns out to be… quite a bit. So Yemen is finally front and center on the radar for the U.S. counterterrorism effort. Not to pat ourselves on the [...]
Blind Trust No Longer
Exploring the policies of the NSA
An Unexpected Problem
Maritime piracy and the global economy
