Harvard Political Review

The Harvard Political Review is excited to announce this special initiative commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. As a publication dedicated to elevating the voices of young journalists in today’s political discourse, this occasion serves as an opportunity for our contributors to offer their reflections on where the nation stands at its semiquin...

From the nation’s revolutionary battlefields, to the uniforms of Union soldiers, to the surface of the moon, America’s flag has appeared during nearly every major event and on all important national landmarks throughout our history. It is also present in some more unlikely places — namely, my dorm room wall.

My 2-by-3-foot American flag is hung with the same remova...

The marriage between public and private enterprise in scientific fields has long been a core tenet of the United States. In Article I of the Constitution, Congress granted the power to promote and protect copyrights and individual intellectual p...

Though the university has long been seen as a symbol of academic prestige in the United States as well as the world, Harvard has recently found itself at the center of national headlines for its

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. One of the nation’s leading public historians, Lepore has written extensively on American politics, democracy, constitutionalism, and the evolution of national identity. In 2026, her book “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” which...