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Akshaya Annapragada

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Fighting for Space

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...

Banning Final Clubs Won’t Protect Women

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: The Hero the United States Deserves

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....

Women in Tech: The Missing Demographic

In 2013, women earned only 17.9 percent of all US bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science, and 19.3 percent of those awarded in engineering,...

It Was Never About the Emails

What’s HRC looking at? Oh….got it. ☕️☕️ Via @BraddJaffy pic.twitter.com/KNQ81MiyZL — Yashar (@yashar) March 3, 2017 This picture might just be the greatest irony of today’s extraordinarily...

A Dangerous TRAP: How Restricting Abortion Harms Women

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Valerie Peterson detailed her experience struggling to get access to an abortion in Texas. Petersen,...

Youth in Service: A New Normal for America?

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.

When Courts Take on Countries

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...

Out of Water, Out of Luck

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.

What is [John Kerry doing for] Aleppo?

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.