Nation & World

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

Historian Jane Kamensky discusses the legal considerations of women during the early history of the nation.

A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.

Foreign minister expects more openness to defense pacts, military spending, cites brutality of invasion in Gunzburg Center event.

Scholar of constitutional law discusses immediate, future implications of breach revealing ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

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.

Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2013 to 2017, discusses how the conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.

Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Nobel laureate, Harvard professor Amartya Sen talks about the challenges he faced writing his new memoir, “Home in the World.”

An informal group of Harvard students study Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs that has been spoken in central Mexico since the seventh century.

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.

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?

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.

Four of Justice Stephen Breyer’s former clerks discuss his service on the bench and how his departure will shape the court.

Ukrainian American physicians from Harvard Medical School and affiliated hospitals gathered virtually Tuesday to share experiences with the war.

Ex-pro soccer player Justin Morrow, founder of Black Players for Change, focuses on raising diversity in leadership roles.

Worse than chemical and nuclear weapons may be the utter and widespread destruction of conventional arms, a Harvard humanitarian expert said.

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.

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.

Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses how inequality has affected the country over the last decade during an HKS lecture Monday evening.

A psychologist who works with adolescents reflects on messages boys receive about male aggression as world reacts to violence at the Oscars.

Documentary photographer and alum travels world to raise awareness of plight of those fleeing violence, persecution.

Excerpted from a new book by Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99, “The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation.”

“Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire” by Caroline Elkins continues the story she began in her Pulitzer-winning “Imperial Reckoning.”

Matthew Bunn of the Kennedy School discusses the threat and possible fallout of an attack in Ukraine, including the excruciating choices Biden and NATO would face.

The Nieman Class of 2022 honored Brent Renaud, a 2019 Nieman Fellow who was killed in Ukraine while working on a documentary about the global refugee crisis.

Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie offered his frank assessments of the political landscape and his friend Donald Trump.

Panel of Harvard experts will explore best way to negotiate an end to the fighting.

Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court shines a light on an overlooked but vital area of the law.