Nation & World
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What’s working, not on front lines of AI in classroom
Tech, education experts share new initiatives on learner profiles, making STEM more accessible, ‘microschool’ experiments
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A call for corporate America to step up on homeless crisis
Business School initiative brings together leaders from business, government, academia
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Think the viral meme of that legislator is funny?
Political philosopher says rampant schadenfreude among electorate poses risk to democracy
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How AI is disrupting classroom, curriculum at community colleges
Conference examines ways to deal with unique vocational, educational challenges
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Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic
Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures
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Our self-evident truths
New book takes as focus ‘greatest sentence ever written,’ how it may help a riven nation recall common values
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Ukraine sees victory ahead, shift to West
Dmytro Kuleba spoke about Ukraine’s push for support from Western powers, mistakes that set the stage for the Russian invasion, and prospects for a Ukrainian victory.
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One year later: How does Ukraine war end?
Analysts look back at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year later.
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‘Renewed and enlightened’
A group of Harvard students share their experiences after making the Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.
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Darth Vader had some skills. Negotiation? Not so much
Noam Ebner and Jen Reynolds analyze scenes from the “Star Wars” saga for lessons on negotiation and conflict resolution.
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Lessons emerge as 7 thirsty states war over Colorado River water
Drought has shrunk the water supply from the Colorado River, but seven states rely on it for at least some of their water.
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Is global tide turning in favor of autocrats?
Kenneth Roth says autocracies are weakening; democracies also face flaw.
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Defining moment for longtime allies
Edward P. Djerejian looks at the major concerns surrounding Israel’s new government policies and the Palestinian issue, including what role the U.S. can play in “conflict management.”
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Lessons of Roe, 50 years later
Speakers at Radcliffe conference look at divisive, fraught history, predict where legal battles go next.
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How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
A new study finds high rates of serious complications among Salvadoran patients who were forced to carry severely malformed fetuses to term.
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They can think, feel pain, love. Isn’t it time animals had rights?
An excerpt from “Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility” by Martha C. Nussbaum, M.A. ’71, Ph.D. ’75.
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Don’t give Russia an inch, former U.S. diplomat says
Marie Yovanovitch makes a case for standing by Ukraine as the war drags on, warning that defeat would embolden Putin and other dictators.
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Nudging donors toward more effective giving
A study by Harvard psychologists finds that preserving personal charity preferences and offering targeted matching funds help.
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Will Trump be charged after House panel’s Jan. 6 report?
Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston, a veteran of Congressional investigations and the White House Counsel’s office, discusses the Jan. 6 committee’s work.
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What is case for prison abolition?
Professor Tommie Shelby hopes his book helps others who are trying to decide whether they support prison abolition over criminal justice reform.
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Striving for impassioned, but reasoned, post-Roe conversation on abortion
Participants representing complex set of views engage at Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics discussion.
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Amendments should start with states
U.S. needs to smooth process without lowering high bar for constitutional change, says Stephen Sachs
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Change the Senate
Disproportionate influence of smaller states creates ‘significant democratic deficit,’ Vicki Jackson argues
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How demagogues wield social media
Cognitive scientist details research on the different ways Republicans and Democrats, use Twitter.
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Fighting for 9/11 families, first responders, vets
Comedian Jon Stewart, who has done advocacy work on behalf of U.S. military veterans and 9/11 first responders for two decades, spoke about what he’s learned during a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Enshrine an affirmative right to vote
Amendment would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy, argues Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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Will anything come of Jan. 6 hearings?
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Harvard Law School and Harvard College alum, previews what the public can expect from the committee in the coming weeks.
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Rushing to save her homeland — or at least its story
Harvard bibliographer Olha Aleksic rushes to save her homeland — or at least its story.
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Halting rising violence against health care workers
Law School discussion weighs effectiveness of legislation, technology, policies.
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A Cup as complex as world
Mideast scholar Cemal Kafadar untangles anti-gay, migrant labor, geopolitical tensions rising as World Cup soccer tournament is set to begin in Arab nation for the first time.
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Climate change in urban America, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Calif. reservation
Co-organized by several Harvard College environmental groups, an event on Nov. 16 will highlight stories of the impact of climate change in seven students’ communities. Organizers aim to highlight stories of students who are taking part in the fight against climate change.
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Biggest loser in midterm election? The Supreme Court
At a Harvard event, veteran analysts sorted through various surprises of the midterm election
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How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan
In the wake of the demise of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act may hold the seeds of its success.
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Heading South in search of the real heart of America
Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book
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Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Let’s fix how we fix the Constitution
Sanford Levinson on the ‘enduring dysfunctionality’ of Article V