Former U.S. and Israeli intelligence heads, John Brennan and Tamir Pardo, told students that it will be up to them to beat back the threats posed by cyberwarfare and politically driven disinformation.
In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.
At a virtual event, global experts examined obesity and malnutrition in the context of global warming, zoonotic disease, and other agriculture-related threats.
The Supreme Court has asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on a lawsuit involving Harvard’s admissions policies. The request postpones the court’s decision on whether to take a case that could have dramatic effects on diversity on college and university campuses across the country.
CNN legal analyst and HLS alum Elie Honig discusses how former Attorney General William Barr weaponized the Department of Justice to serve President Donald Trump, and harmed the institution in the process.
Robert Danin, a career U.S. diplomat, and Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and vice prime minister of Israel, discuss the potentially historic moment in Israeli politics as a coalition tries to end the 12-year run of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Citing 40 years of legal precedent and two lower court rulings in Harvard’s favor, Harvard on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the request by Students for Fair Admissions that it review the College’s whole-person admissions practices and revisit decades of case law allowing the consideration of race as one factor among many in higher education admissions.
The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
Two prominent European human-rights activists appeared in a trans-Atlantic Harvard event on Thursday to discuss ways legislation on that continent can and has been used to fight racism.
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
“Making Schools More Human,” part of the Graduate School of Education’s Education Now webinar series, explored what was learned from the pandemic that can be used to improve education going forward.
Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.
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