Nation & World

In his first Harvard event since retiring from the Supreme Court in June, former Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke to first-year students at Harvard Law School on Friday about his experiences on the bench and what he learned working for Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II presents the perfect opportunity to set the record straight and perhaps embark on long-overdue changes, said Maya Jasanoff, X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor and Coolidge Professor of History.

California’s move to ban gas-powered car sales will have ripple effects visible along highways and in neighborhoods where people sleep, and cars charge.

Emi Nietfeld ’15 talks about her memoir “Acceptance,” a powerful account of her journey from foster care and homelessness to Harvard.

Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson on the political press’s sudden change of heart on Biden.

Kennedy School expert assesses MBTA’s historic shutdown and explains why so many major cities grapple with never-ending public transit woes.

Neighborhood groups come to HGSE with children from disadvantaged communities in mind.

In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.

Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world.

How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Harvard Kennedy School political historian Alexander Keyssar discusses revelations about former President Trump and his top White House aides at this week’s Jan. 6 hearing.

Marianna Yang, a clinical instructor at the Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic at WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, discusses the rise of domestic violence during the pandemic.

Schlesinger Library holdings document long, pitched dispute over abortion in archival documents, photos, letters, voices of women.

Legal scholar Mary Ziegler sees “selective” history in SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and signs that other landmark protections are in jeopardy.

Ukrainian physicians from Mass. General and Brigham & Women’s are leveraging what they see as their most effective asset — knowledge — to help those back home.

It upended intercollegiate sports but also forced shifts in hiring, promotion, admissions, reckoning on sexual harassment, assault.

Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed discusses how Texans celebrate our newest national holiday, Juneteenth.

Historian and journalist Garrett Graff ’03 explains why the Watergate break-in wasn’t the true beginning of Watergate.

Many important players in the Watergate saga had Harvard connections.

Parkland survivor Jaclyn Corin ’23 says her March for Our Lives group demands federal curbs at June 11 protests in D.C., hundreds of cities, towns.

A Harvard public health expert in gun safety thinks the U.S. will eventually become safer from gun-related violence, but he also sees a long, difficult road to get there.

In a peer-reviewed piece published in the journal Science, scholars from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab created a roadmap to help researchers take greater care when writing biological definitions and classifications of sex, mindful of how their language may be used in the public arena.

Book excerpt from “Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made” by David Gergen.

Gerald Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal and an Institute of Politics Fellow this spring, discusses the political implications of U.S. support for Ukraine in the 2022 midterms.

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.

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin says education was a larger factor than gender in labor disruptions.

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.

In Kennedy School talk, global security experts scrutinize weapon deployment threats in Ukraine, accelerated missile tests, silo construction.

Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony

Writer and Harvard Law School graduate Susan Cain ’93 has written the book “Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Can Make Us Whole.”