By Dylan Matthews, Idriss Fofana, Ian Kumekawa, Daniel Villafana and Lucy Caplan
Next week, President-elect Obama and the new Congress will take ownership of a struggling economy, devastated planet, and two overseas wars, among other challenges. Out of these myriad problems, Perspective has selected the nine issues most deserving of attention and constant scrutiny by the [...]
By Adaner Usmani
The self-evidence which assimilates democracy to a representative form of government resulting from an election is quite recent in history. Originally representation was the exact contrary of democracy. None ignored this at the time of the French and American revolutions. The Founding Fathers and a number of their French emulators saw in it [...]
By Mihir Gupta
In the summer of 2008, I traveled to northeastern India to study the impact of HIV/AIDS in rural and urban areas. With a team of social workers from the Indian government and several collaborating NGOs, I journeyed from inner-city alleyways to lush rural villages, on a variety of HIV/AIDS public health interventions. This [...]
In September 2006, when the class of 2010 streamed into the Science Center for the mandatory “Sex Signals” presentation, they were accosted by a horde of Burberry-wearing, Andover Shoppe-frequenting upperclassmen handing out pink slips of paper. The fliers contained a list of reasons to wait to have sex until marriage, among them, “Because married sex [...]
By Joe Hodgkin and Ron Serko
Until everything fell apart, my heart lay with John Edwards
The soft hair, the soothing accent, the proletarian pandering…all too perfect! But Edwards soon abandoned me. I fell sobbing into the warm embrace of the junior senator from Illinois, whose soar-ing rhetoric felt like a coded message to a solidly leftist [...]