Nation & World

Ugandan Scholar at Risk and human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo describes how his early life shaped his future.

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.

Social scientist Dolly Chugh explained her approach to being a “goodish” person during a Friday talk hosted by the Program on Negotiation.

Carter G. Woodson, a groundbreaking historian and Harvard alum, is known as the father of Black history.

Reaction follows Supreme Court decision to rule on University’s policy of considering race as one factor among many in admissions.

Experts from higher education and beyond react to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the admissions case.

Author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat ’02 talks about his new book, “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.”

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.”

The Supreme Court decision could upend four decades of legal precedent and alter higher education in the U.S.

Harvard Lecturer Alexandra Vacroux discusses Russia’s massive military buildup on Ukraine’s border.

A book by Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin traces Martin Luther King’s desperation and the savvy legal tactics of Constance Baker Motley.

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.

Tessa Charlesworth, a Department of Psychology postdoc, says social reckoning is needed to deal with implicit disability bias.

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.

One year later, Harvard Kennedy School historian Alexander Keyssar reflects on the January 6 insurrection.

Philosopher David Lamberth responds to Pew findings that most Americans don’t hold God responsible for the world’s suffering.

Voting rights advocates and election law experts discuss Congressional redistricting efforts unfolding across the country since the 2020 U.S. Census.

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.

In her new book Linda Greenhouse traces forces that made near certain rise of newest — and undeniably consequential — Supreme Court justice.

Research by a Harvard doctoral student found that district attorneys push harder for convictions and sentences in election years.

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.

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.

The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has pioneered the study of the impact of mass violence on refugees and treatment for trauma recovery over its 40-year history.

The assistant director of research at the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, Calder Walton talks about the recent U.S. intelligence report on the national security implications of

Inspired by family and tribe, Samantha Maltais plans a future focused on Indigenous rights, environmental justice.

Columbia Law Professor Sarah Seo traces the long history of sometimes violent bias cops have shown against Black drivers.

Filipino journalist and 2021 Nobel laureate Maria Ressa issues a warning about information warfare on social media, and what it may mean for democratic institutions such as free press and free elections.

Education and industry experts say a large subset of students are not being fully prepared for STEM careers, listing ways to close the gap.

COP26, while a mixed bag, maintained progress toward global climate goals, says Rob Stavins.

In Theodore R. Johnson’s new book, “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America,” he delves into the America’s racist history in search of solutions to the “existential threat” that continues to shadow the land.