Employment & Immigration
Cutthroat Academia: Invisible Innovators
"Placed into a system that tends to exploit immigrant labor, the unlucky ones go from blue-collar work to, in extreme cases, 100-hour work weeks inside clandestine labs."
Joy Ding
Joy Ding is an executive content editor at the HIR. She is a junior pursuing a joint concentration in Computer Science and Government.
China
Social Media: Threat to or Tool of Authoritarianism?
"Given the growing weight of social media’s influence on society, the key question is whether social media will become a sentinel against systematic oppression and injustice, effectively posing a serious challenge to authoritarian regimes."
Science & Technology
Rethinking Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property in a Post-Pandemic World
It is fair to ask whether IP laws will foil efforts to fast-track drug development and provide battered countries with much-needed medical tools.
Arts & Culture
Treasure Hunting in the 21st Century
In the early 20th century, Frederic Putnam, the curator of the Peabody Museum, made a proposal to his former student, a young Peruvian by the name of Julio Tello who had recently graduated with a masters degree in archaeology from Harvard. The Peabody Museum would retain Tello as an archaeologist
China
Pandas as Diplomatic Currency
According to Cui Tiankai, the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, “There are actually two Chinese ambassadors in Washington: me and the panda cub at the National Zoo." Cui’s quote reflects the rise of Chinese soft power, both in the United States and across the world.