It’s not a problem that America has grown more divided — the problem is that America has grown worse at respecting why division exists and better at naively hoping for agreement without defining a procedure for nourishing its precursors: understanding, empathy, and humility.
For the sake of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy and for the sake of our republic, it is essential that those who sit on the bench do so with respect for one another.
The late 2010s saw the erosion of “norms” in presidential traditions and White House history. Can the Executive Mansion as we know it survive the post-Trump presidency?
After the Iowa caucuses earlier this week, Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican primary race, endorsing Donald Trump for the presidency. Though the Republican primaries will progress without him, his attempt at the White House as a Hindu-American son of immigrants is significant.
When both the school and the family have clear roles, expectations, and respect for the legitimate contributions the other can provide, they are able to support one another most effectively.
On June 16th, 1858, then-senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln warned that “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Two years later, his prophecy would be...
It is important for us, as inheritors of our previous generations’ political epigenetics, to recognize, cultivate, and perhaps even celebrate the inherent performativity of our political action.
For “The Art of Being Political,” the HPR sat down with the current U.S. Youth Poet Laureate, Salome Agbaroji, to get her take on the true “politics of poetry,” as well as how she hopes to shape her time as a poet at Harvard.
The city is the unofficial “Mural Capital of the World,” and the vibrant, culturally rich paintings can be seen in nearly every neighborhood, each one a distinct representation of the people who call that community home.
