The biannual Harvard Youth Poll, the nation’s leading survey of 18-29-year-olds, finds the idea of “America” to be profoundly polarizing for the nation’s youth: less than half of young Americans (41%) ...

Freedom of speech is a sacred part of American culture and citizenship and a hallmark of democratic nations. Yet, with outbreaks of violence across the globe, it is evident that something must be done ...

As the Puerto Rican economic recession approached its 10-year mark, the island’s government was preparing to unveil a new budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year. Recognizing the failure of spending cuts ...

As a horde of passionate supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chanted, “bye-bye Kemal” in the wake of his victory in the Turkish runoff ...

Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political ...

In 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that the Nobel Peace Prize would go to a Harvard Law School graduate, an elected junior senator of Illinois, and the first Black President of the United ...

Not all experts agree with this characterization of the fossil fuel industry, though. Robert Stavins, a professor of energy and economic development at the Harvard Kennedy School, told the HPR that he ...

On the campaign trail for the 2016 Presidential Election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump spared no words in expressing his opinion on Islam. In an effort to rationalize his promise to block the entry ...

Note: I have been using the term “incarcerated people” throughout my column (as opposed to “inmates”, “prisoners”, “criminals”, or similar labels). As I use this term frequently in this article, I ...

Image by Himanshu More licensed under the Unsplash License. According to the latest data from the Migration Policy Institute, 2.7 million Indian immigrants live in the United States, with thousands ...

I’m from Maine, and I return every time I can. I’m not from the coast, but my cousins are, and boiled lobster is the standard at any summer gathering. I remember my lobsterman cousin pulling up in his ...

In the current political climate, many disenchanted Americans have expressed, to various degrees of sincerity, a desire to escape to Canada. “If Trump gets re-elected, I’m crossing the border North.” ...