Syon Bhanot
Syon Bhanot is a graduate student in the MPP Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Public Policy and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School in 2006. He can be reached at spbhanot@gmail.com.
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Articles by Syon Bhanot
January 22, 2007
At 10:26 AM Nairobi time, I opened Barack Obama’s Wikipedia entry online, curious to find out more about the man who is a front-runner for my vote in the 2008 New Jersey Primary. As I scanned Obama’s biography, I came upon a curious statement tucked at the end of a paragraph detailing his career as ...
January 12, 2007
On December 15, 2005, President George W. Bush met with Senator John McCain in the Oval Office. There, he expressed his support for McCain’s amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill - a pledge by the US government not to use torture or “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or puni...
January 10, 2007
Looking back at 2006, one cannot help but notice that the most iconic political moments of the year came in the form of grassroots media. Internet hubs like YouTube, Wikipedia, and blogs have turned everyone with a phone line into an investigative reporter, and this has had a significant impact on t...