Nation & World
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Things money can’t buy — like happiness and better health
That’s according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which over its 87-year run has generated data that benefits work on other issues
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Closer look at ‘coolest dictator in the world’
Sociologist traces rise, career of Salvadoran leader some view as savior, others as authoritarian
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Pompeo warns against U.S. pulling back from global leadership role
Former secretary of state offers insider accounts of efforts on Middle East, Iran, China, view of Ukraine war
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When foreign governments took aim at universities
Scholars look to historical examples for insights amid current U.S. tensions
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How hot is too hot?
Teaming up with grassroots organizers in India, Harvard researchers are collecting data to help workers adapt to dangerous spikes in heat
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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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Stopping toxic flow of guns from U.S. to Mexico
Mexican officials, Harvard health policy scholars, and Georgetown law professor discuss a landmark lawsuit targeting U.S. firearm firms.
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Their assignment? Design a more equitable future
As Biden pledges funds to undo harms caused by interstate highway system, GSD students imagine what that might look like in a dozen U.S. cities.
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Anita Hill on ending gender harassment and violence
At a Harvard Radcliffe Institute talk, Anita Hill discussed her new book, which is part memoir and part legal and cultural analysis.
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We haven’t just suffered during COVID. We’ve learned.
Resilience of young people, new treatment tools give Matt Nock hope amid challenges posed by social media, school and campus disruptions.
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Is American democracy in peril?
Harvard political scientist and dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay discusses the future of democracy in the U.S.
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Is 80 the new 60?
A new demographic shift is driven by increases in life expectancy and “health span.”
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What’s Putin’s next move?
U.S. intelligence and defense analysts assesses the likelihood of a land invasion of Ukraine by Russia as the U.S and NATO forces send troops to the region.
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Historic gift an investment in pandemic-weary educators, dean says
Financial aid for Teaching and Teacher Leadership students comes as educators confront social, academic challenges exacerbated by pandemic.
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Fighting for human rights in riven land overseen by repressive regime
Ugandan Scholar at Risk and human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo describes how his early life shaped his future.
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Biggest hurdle to U.S. energy policy revamp? Millions of displaced workers
MIT-Harvard project is sending teams to explore how to ease the effects of the coming energy transition in parts of the U.S. that most heavily depend on fossil fuel-related industries.
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Want to be a good person? Stop trying so hard.
Social scientist Dolly Chugh explained her approach to being a “goodish” person during a Friday talk hosted by the Program on Negotiation.
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Celebrating the founder of Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, a groundbreaking historian and Harvard alum, is known as the father of Black history.
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Students call ensuring diversity on campus vital
Reaction follows Supreme Court decision to rule on University’s policy of considering race as one factor among many in admissions.
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Higher ed, civil rights leaders decry high court decision to hear admissions case
Experts from higher education and beyond react to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the admissions case.
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Wrenching 5-year battle with Lyme disease
Author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat ’02 talks about his new book, “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.”
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How ‘Good War’ wasn’t all that good
An interview with professor at the United States Military Academy, about her new book, “Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.”
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Supreme Court to hear Harvard admissions challenge
The Supreme Court decision could upend four decades of legal precedent and alter higher education in the U.S.
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Is Putin going to invade Ukraine?
Harvard Lecturer Alexandra Vacroux discusses Russia’s massive military buildup on Ukraine’s border.
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Rescuing MLK and his Children’s Crusade
A book by Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin traces Martin Luther King’s desperation and the savvy legal tactics of Constance Baker Motley.
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We don’t need a civil war to be in serious trouble
Jay Ulfelder, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, says as bad as it looks, we’re not on the brink of civil war.
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Why disability bias is a particularly stubborn problem
Tessa Charlesworth, a Department of Psychology postdoc, says social reckoning is needed to deal with implicit disability bias.
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Seething populist anger and lessons for U.S. in German elections
Michael Sandel’s views of the myth of meritocracy influenced Germany’s new chancellor and may offer ideas for the way forward for the U.S.
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Dark lessons of Jan. 6 Capitol assault
One year later, Harvard Kennedy School historian Alexander Keyssar reflects on the January 6 insurrection.
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In a country shadowed by death, God gets a pass. Why?
Philosopher David Lamberth responds to Pew findings that most Americans don’t hold God responsible for the world’s suffering.
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Legal battles joined over redrawing of election maps
Voting rights advocates and election law experts discuss Congressional redistricting efforts unfolding across the country since the 2020 U.S. Census.
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U.S. urges Supreme Court to decline Harvard admissions case
U.S. brief to Supreme Court in Harvard case points to lower court decisions, long precedent allowing universities to consider race as a factor in admissions.
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The chosen one: Amy Coney Barrett
In her new book Linda Greenhouse traces forces that made near certain rise of newest — and undeniably consequential — Supreme Court justice.
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Looking at role of prosecutors, politics in mass incarceration
Research by a Harvard doctoral student found that district attorneys push harder for convictions and sentences in election years.
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‘I lost good friends’
Leon Starr, Class of 1940, was living in Boston when the Japanese attacked the United States. He signed up for the Navy the next day.
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Difference between Rittenhouse and McMichael-Bryan verdicts?
Caroline Light says the different rulings in the Rittenhouse, McMichael-Bryan cases come down to the defenses’ level of success in making the perpetrator seem like the victim.