Nation & World

Brittney Griner, Spike Lee, and other honorees lauded for contributions to Black culture, scholarship, and civic life

Visiting professor who served 3 decades with Justice Dept. sees urgent need to protect presumption of regularity

Nuclear-age historian argues scientists who backed arsenals as deterrent aided military-industrial complex, hampered disarmament

MLK Lecture honoree Darren Walker urges hope, courage in fight against inequality, polarization

Are outdated teaching methods to blame for declining U.S. reading scores?

Times columnist Michelle Goldberg discusses Israel, social conservatism, immigration, and where free speech becomes something else

David Deming and Randall Kennedy discuss — and debate — good, bad of meritocracy with ‘Justice’ philosopher

New research by Claudia Goldin extends her work on how, why cultural changes around gender are driving down fertility in U.S., elsewhere

Rosalie Abella, the first Jewish woman on Canada’s Supreme Court, was shaped by her parents’ resilience after Holocaust

Former federal legal officials were worried even before election, but Comey, James indictments crossed line, journalist says

Grad School of Education will partner with nine states — from Rhode Island to Texas — to look for practical solutions to low test scores, chronic absenteeism

Data editor explains how digital tools sift through mountains of government, business data to find ways to make things better or unearth crimes

Journalists Baker and Glasser explore how Russian leader has interpreted, defied ambitions of U.S. leaders

Americans seem to mostly say yes; legal, medical scholars point to complexities of setting limits

Former veteran legislator, economist Phil Gramm argues unequal distribution of wealth inevitable; policy to engineer level playing field is mistake

First-term Trump VP: ‘If America isn’t leading the free world, the free world is not being led.’

Political analytics conference convenes experts on voter trends, election forecasting, behavioral research

Asian nation now main economic, military threat to Western democracies, according to former national security adviser

Researcher traces evolution of computation power of human brains, parallels to AI, argues key to increasing complexity is cooperation

Designation comes as Harvard’s decadeslong archaeological dig uncovers new secrets from remains of ancient Turkish city

In podcast, experts discuss why learning to love to read again may be key to reversing trend

Low-carbon energy firm CEO says executives dialed in on climate change, pondering adjustments despite shifts in Washington

New data-based study debunks long-held notion, finds wide opportunity gaps remain

Incursions, increase in aggression really just part of ongoing push by Putin to destabilize ties of allies, scholars and analysts say

Jill Lepore describes a document built for tinkering in new history of the Constitution

Legal scholars say justices could reverse ruling allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on technical grounds amid shift in court makeup

Surveys tracking religious engagement globally show decline starts after church’s 1960s reforms

Oral history offers kaleidoscopic view of angst and relief, hope and dread at test of atomic bomb 80 years ago

Economist’s new tool looks at how China is more effective than U.S. in exerting political power through import, export controls

New paper suggests threats are more widespread, less obvious than some might think