The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Two hundred years ago today, Greece declared its independence. From the start, Harvard was there, helping both in the fledgling Mediterranean country and back in the United States.
Anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, but after the Atlanta shootings that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, there is renewed sense of urgency to denounce racism and scapegoating.
Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.
New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.
Former Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch ’01, M.P.P. ’08, J.D. ’08, started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Navajo and Hopi communities respond to the coronavirus pandemic. She has raised $18 million.
Criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff wrote a book about how the misdemeanor system punishes the poor and people of color. The book has inspired a documentary film, which will be released on March 11.
A neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but on those of the neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi discussed his recent trip to Iran, his negotiations with Iranian leaders, along with the extra burdens placed on his agency by the dangers of the pandemic.
A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.
The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.
In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.
President Biden’s release of 2018 U.S. intelligence report on murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sets the stage for a significant shift in U.S.-Saudi relations from Trump era.
Ana Billingsley, assistant director with the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines inequities in the criminal justice system.
In his new book, “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations,” Robert Livingston of the Harvard Kennedy School argues that racism can be battled with constructive dialogue.
David Eaves, an expert on information technology and the government, discusses why governments seemingly struggle to implement tech tools such as vaccine appointments or health insurance enrollment.
Fredrik Logevall, whose recent book, “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956,” covers the president’s early years. In conversation Monday with fellow historian Jon Meacham, Logevall discussed his findings and offered some hints as to what is to come in the second volume.
Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown explains how decades of painstaking activism culminated in Black voters’ decisive and historic role in the 2020 election.
Harvard community members react to the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland as secretary of Interior, the first Native American in the department that is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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