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Poland: Disillusion Trumps Obama’s Popularity

On my first night living in Poland last summer, I asked my host mother, a 44-year-old Polish elementary schoolteacher and mother of two, her opinions...

How To Write About the Tea Party, Continued

In my last post, I chided Harvard writers for the way they tend to write about the Tea Party. I said that our focus...

63% Believe Climate Change is Happening? Not bad!

Last week, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies released a report called Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change. The document is the result...

Joke’s up.

When Sarah Palin's first interview with Katie Couric aired, I laughed along with everyone else. I remember marveling at how inept a decision the McCain...

Purging Peretz

The Martin Peretz issue, it seems, is not going away. At least, that's what the Undergraduate Council would like us to believe. Most students and faculty...

Conflicts of Interest on the Court

Life time appointments to the Supreme Court are a double-edge sword.  On the one hand, it is more difficult for public opinion to cloud...

Our Moment

I’d like to believe that there’s a place in our politics between caricature and indifference -- between judgement (ie, praise, censure, etc), on the one...

Two weeks.

Massachusetts voters will, in fourteen days, express their satisfaction, or lack thereof, with the state’s leadership over the past four years. In a state...

A Friendly Reminder from Mister Putin

Russia isn’t even pretending to be our friend anymore. After suffering the embarrassment of having an enormous spy syndicate captured on American soil last...

Retroactive Diary of Qureshi Forum

Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, foreign minister of Pakistan, at the Institute of Politics