Women fighting for space in male-dominated areas, like these members of Congress, face countless burdens but play a key role in the struggle for equal rights.
Seeing Kamala...
I’m not here to lambast the final clubs for the inequality and gender, race and class-based discrimination they perpetuate. While those negatives undoubtedly exist, the recently proposed ban on “Unrecognized Single Gender Social Organizations” does little to fix these harms. To truly help female students, Harvard should focus on making concerted, proactive policy decisions that support and empower women.
Silicon Valley and its host of enigmatic billionaires love to deride the U.S. government as a slow-moving, inefficient quagmire, incapable of producing real results....
What’s HRC looking at? Oh….got it. ☕️☕️
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— Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017
This picture might just be the greatest irony of today’s extraordinarily...
Despite the bad rap that the youth get, recent polling by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University reveals that the majority of young people today actually support the idea of a national service program for Americans under the age of 25. The IOP survey of 18-29 year old Americans found that a full 50 percent support voluntary national service, and seven percent support mandatory national service. Only 10 percent of respondents indicated that they would not support national service at all, while 33 percent were either unsure, or did not answer.
On September 11, 2001, Stephanie DeSimone’s life changed forever. A joyful expectant mother, DeSimone became a pregnant widow when her Navy commander husband was...
Refugee camps are grim places to live, and while the suffering of refugees is well-documented, one of the biggest dangers has nothing to do with guns and violence, but with the lack of clean drinking water. Refugees placed in camps often face water scarcity and inadequate ability to purify the little that is available, leading to negative health consequences and further strain on already overworked infrastructure.
Despite presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s ignorant question “What is Aleppo?,” many other politicians recognize that the grave situation in Syria can no longer be ignored. Since 2011, the country has been involved in a destructive, multi-faceted civil war, which has grown to involve four warring factions: President Bashar al-Assad’s government; moderate opposition forces; extremist ISIS fighters; and the Nusra front, a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
