By Lucy Caplan, Joe Hodgkin, and Ian Kumekawa
Senator Edward Kennedy’s passing last month caused social and political shockwaves across America. Here in Massachusetts, amid the Senator’s wish that lawmakers grant Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint Kennedy’s successor, a special election to fill the vacant seat has been scheduled for January of next year. [...]
By Daniel Villafana
Perspective: Why did HUDS remove hot breakfast?
Anonymous HUDS Employee: For financial savings through labor cuts. Harvard spends a lot of money on benefits for its employees. That is where the real saving are. Removing hot breakfast was going to allow HUDS to get rid of 24 employees, 12 cooks and 12 servers. But [...]
By Ian Kumekawa
In late August, Japanese voters staidly cast the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party out of power. The election was marked with few protests, and after the results were in and a landslide victory for the opposition secured, there was nothing resembling the jubilant celebration seen after Election Day in America. Yet this restrained demeanor [...]
The health care debate has dragged on long enough by this point to make even the wonkiest and most passionate among us tire of it. After months of yelling about the public option, benefits for undocumented workers, and the hilarious-cum-terrifying “death panels” fantasia, it seems as though all that can be said has been. The [...]
By Dylan Matthews
As tens of thousands of conspiracy theorists, right wing survivalists, and revanchist malcontents of all varieties streamed into Washington, DC this past September 12 to protest…well, everything, it was all too easy (and fun!) to point and laugh at the various nuts parading through the nation’s capital. There was the requisite Confederate flag, [...]
By Benjamin Hand
At the present, both the United States and the larger industrialized world find themselves in unstable financial times. In many parts of our country, the unemployment rate has climbed above ten percent, and many family’s individual budgets have never been so bleak. However, these concerns overshadow the larger danger of our global financial [...]