Nation & World

Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book

Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”

Sanford Levinson on the ‘enduring dysfunctionality’ of Article V

Most political reporters and pundits agree that the results from Tuesday’s midterm elections have been a surprise.

New research looks at intergenerational tensions, Gen Z as coming change agents.

A better Electoral College requires a Congress as elastic and flexible as the drafters of the Constitution intended, says Danielle Allen

Republican Charlie Baker, who closes out his eight years as the governor of Massachusetts in January, discussed governing in a democracy and the duties of citizenship in this year’s Edwin L. Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School.

Days before the midterms, we sat down with three scholars for a conversation about U.S. democracy. The mood was anxious.

Lawyers cite wider value of campus diversity on culture, economy of nation, push back against claims of bias against Asian Americans.

Harvard students join others from around nation in Supreme Court rally supporting race-conscious admission policies.

Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.

Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to decide whether race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina can continue.

Brown University political scientist says Frederick Douglass, others found racial domination at odds with ideals of republicanism.

A panel on abortion rights and reproductive justice in Latin America explored the factors behind landmark decisions liberalizing abortion laws in Mexico and Colombia.

Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.

A Q&A with Luiz Eloy Terena, a Brazilian Indigenous lawyer and a land-rights activist who took part in a panel on the effects of illegal gold mining in the Amazon on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights.

The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser discusses her new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021.”

At Harvard Kennedy School, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney spoke about Jan. 6 and urged students not to be bystanders of American democracy.

New York Times bestselling author John Green was the first speaker of the 2022-2023 William Belden Noble Lecture series at the Memorial Church last Friday with a speech titled “How the World Ends.”

Graham Allison looks at how Kennedy and Khrushchev stepped back from the point of no return and the challenges facing the West in preventing Putin from crossing it.

U.S. education secretary says pandemic revealed pre-existing problems; now is the time to fix them.

Anand Giridharadas discusses his new book, “The Persuaders,” which highlights activists, political leaders, and ordinary people who haven’t given up on changing hearts and minds in the name of democracy.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III praises, pushes Harvard in inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture

Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher gave the talk “The Pope against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice” on Thursday at Harvard Divinity School.

New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to take down crucial U.S. establishments, institutions.

Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky talks Russia strategy, nuclear threat, Ukrainian unity, leadership lessons at Kennedy School talk.

Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.

Currently Italy, Spain, France, and the U.S. are the world’s biggest wine producers, but Georgia is the oldest and among the most storied.