Nation & World
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New, bigger humanitarian crisis in Darfur. But this time, no global outcry.
Regional specialists sound alarm, say displacement, starvation affect many more than two decades ago.
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Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness
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‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker
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What we still need to learn from pandemic
School closures, shutdowns caused lasting damage, and debate was shut down in favor of groupthink, public policy experts say
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Leveraging social capital to defend worthy causes, people in need of representation
Legal scholar and Law School grad returns for student panel
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EPA plans target climate change initiatives
Environmental law experts say rollbacks will reverse advances in recent decades
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Lessons in hate from the Holocaust to Buffalo
The event featured cast members from the documentary “Undeniable: The Truth to Remember,” which follows the lives of Holocaust survivors as they share their stories with Texas high school students.
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Women mostly stayed in workforce as pandemic unfolded, defying forecasts
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin says education was a larger factor than gender in labor disruptions.
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Snatching a culture back from state-sanctioned violence
Binalakshmi Nepram, a Harvard Library Fellow through Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program, has spent the past 15 years fighting the oppression of the nearly 50 million Indigenous people in Manipur, India.
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Moves by Russia, China, North Korea rekindle nuclear concerns
In Kennedy School talk, global security experts scrutinize weapon deployment threats in Ukraine, accelerated missile tests, silo construction.
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An end and a beginning
Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony
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That feeling you get when listening to sad music? It’s humanity.
Writer and Harvard Law School graduate Susan Cain ’93 has written the book “Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Can Make Us Whole.”
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When abortion wasn’t a legal issue
Historian Jane Kamensky discusses the legal considerations of women during the early history of the nation.
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Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap
A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.
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Ukraine war testing Irish neutrality
Foreign minister expects more openness to defense pacts, military spending, cites brutality of invasion in Gunzburg Center event.
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Softer language post-leak? Maybe, says Tribe, but ruling will remain an ‘iron fist’
Scholar of constitutional law discusses immediate, future implications of breach revealing ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Scrutinizing narratives behind nation’s monuments
History of Art and Architecture Professors Sarah Lewis and Joseph Koerner have joined forces for a new class called “Monuments,” which aims to prompt critical conversations about the public works of remembrance.
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How war in Ukraine is reshaping global order
Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2013 to 2017, discusses how the conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order.
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Power of photography
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.
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Learning how to talk about divisive issues
Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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The story behind Amartya Sen’s memoir
Nobel laureate, Harvard professor Amartya Sen talks about the challenges he faced writing his new memoir, “Home in the World.”
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At Div School, centuries-old Aztec language speaks to the present
An informal group of Harvard students study Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs that has been spoken in central Mexico since the seventh century.
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Raskin’s message to students: Don’t just stand there, change something
Speaking at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin fielded questions about his legal and political education and his work on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Would Russia have invaded if it wasn’t just one man making call? Possibly
Josh Kertzer looks at Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine and asks would it have happened if a group had made the call instead of just one man?
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When disaster strikes, what you don’t know might kill you
In excerpt from new book on our age of disasters, Kennedy School lecturer Juliette Kayyem ’91, J.D. ’95, examines how we take wrong lessons from history.
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Long shadow of Stephen Breyer
Four of Justice Stephen Breyer’s former clerks discuss his service on the bench and how his departure will shape the court.
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Viewing Ukraine’s war-torn health care through a personal lens
Ukrainian American physicians from Harvard Medical School and affiliated hospitals gathered virtually Tuesday to share experiences with the war.
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Weatherhead fellow aims to pair social justice, sports
Ex-pro soccer player Justin Morrow, founder of Black Players for Change, focuses on raising diversity in leadership roles.
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Rebuilding Ukraine after ‘great de-developer’
Worse than chemical and nuclear weapons may be the utter and widespread destruction of conventional arms, a Harvard humanitarian expert said.
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Black progress, white anger
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. spoke at the latest virtual JFK Jr. Forum, which is part of the “Reckoning with the Past, Rebuilding the Future” speaker.
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Russian actions speak louder than withdrawal promises, analyst says
Amid hopeful signs of progress in the war in Ukraine, a Harvard expert on the region takes an “actions speak louder than words” approach to Russian promises.
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Joseph Stiglitz warned of wealth gap in 2012 — and it’s gotten worse
Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses how inequality has affected the country over the last decade during an HKS lecture Monday evening.
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Wait — what if Will Smith was just being a man?
A psychologist who works with adolescents reflects on messages boys receive about male aggression as world reacts to violence at the Oscars.
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Bearing witness to Ukraine war through eyes of refugees
Documentary photographer and alum travels world to raise awareness of plight of those fleeing violence, persecution.
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How weight-loss industry profits on shame
Excerpted from a new book by Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99, “The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation.”
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Legacy of liberal violence
“Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire” by Caroline Elkins continues the story she began in her Pulitzer-winning “Imperial Reckoning.”