Features
1948 in Focus
On the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel, two Kennedy School students - one Israeli, one Palestinian-American - reflect on what the date means to them.
News
Military Takes Aim at Educating Civilians
On a sunny April day in West Point, New York, eight students sat down for lunch in the dining hall of the United States Military Academy. Seven of them were cadets, wearing Advanced Combat Uniforms and boots-the relaxed dress code for Fridays. But the eighth stood out like a sore thumb: a Kennedy School student dressed in khakis and asking lots of questions.
Snapshot
Work ‘Til You Drop
An exhausted student catches some shut-eye in her books. Credit: Nik Steinberg
Culture
Loving the Unloved: A Brief Tour of Harvard’s Modern Architectural Gems
Go on. Say it. I won’t judge. You hate Peabody Terrace. You think it’s ugly. It’s okay - you’re not alone. I don’t think I’ve met a single person in Cambridge, excluding architects, who likes those buildings.
HKS Student Photo Gallery
Photographs taken by HKS students at home and in the field, courtesy of the 1000 Words Caucus, which uses images to bring greater awareness to policy challenges around the world.
HKS News
An Uncivil Actionby Nik Steinberg, Editor-in-Chief
On July 7, 2007, Harvard campus security guard Rajiv Ghimiray was working the night shift when he started to feel dizziness and a tingling feeling throughout his body. Ghimiray, who suffers from high blood pressure, sat down to rest on a sofa in a dorm lounge, where his supervisor found him minutes later. He was given an official warning for taking... Read more »
Opinion
Armageddon Outta Hereby Cody Keenan, Opinions Editor
As I sit in a Starbucks on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, I watch a steady line of staffers clad in Brooks Brothers and clutching BlackBerries march by. As they obsessively scroll through their inboxes, their bosses do little to prevent our problems from steadily growing worse. I’m halfway tempted to stand in their... Read more »
You’re a Lot More Interesting than I Thoughtby Carlyn Reichel, Incoming Opinions Editor
Not to make this all about me, because this is about you - but my birthday is today. So, as the quarter-life crisis careens headlong at me, I’ve been thinking about how to honor the momentous day when I will finally be able to rent a car on my own. I try to do something unique or interesting or stupid each year to mark the occasion. Last year,... Read more »
Eavesdropper
Eavesdropperby Naseem Khuri, Culture/Photo Editor
Snippets of conversation overheard in the HKS hallways. Read more » Read More →
Citizen Conversation With...
The Citizen Conversation with … Peter Bergenby Ben Branham, News Editor
Peter Bergen, a visiting adjunct lecturer who this spring taught a new course on “Al Qaeda and the Rise of International Terrorism” (ISP-425), is widely viewed as a pre-eminent terrorism expert. As the first journalist to conduct a televised interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, Bergen has authored two books, Holy War, Inc. (Free Press,... Read more »
