Nation & World
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How to teach in era of AI, grade inflation
Professors detail assignments that require analytic skills, make it hard to use tech as crutch
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Correcting the world map
Scholars explain significance of U.N. vote endorsing new version that reflects actual size of Africa
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What role should ‘diversity,’ ‘pluralism’ play in higher education?
Cornell William Brooks, Kevin Roberts spar over whether race-conscious programs still needed
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Is cursive worth learning?
Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point.
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Taking vital training home
With help from the i-Lab, two students tackle improving education in the DRC, healthcare in rural Mongolia
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Is it time to start cutting red tape on government programs?
Journalist’s new book argues ‘administrative burden’ unfairly hits nation’s most vulnerable hardest, suggests solutions
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Confronting campus antisemitism
Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say
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Would social media ban for children work here? Australia offers lessons.
New paper by Cass Sunstein, colleagues finds poor early adherence but also suggests trying to shift social norms, offering incentives could help
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‘Images of vitality and hope’ amid ravages of war
Photographer captured daily life as South Koreans transitioned to peace
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Who joined the Nazi Party
‘Ordinary men’ were at the heart of genocidal movement as it grew, research says
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Over the American dream? Watch this.
Video series spotlights schools, communities where economic mobility is top of mind
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Warning: This debate ‘could be really combustible’
Conservative and progressive law scholars get together to trade views on SCOTUS legitimacy — and prove a chatbot wrong
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Breyer makes case for civic education
Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom
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Call for ‘historical truth’ in our narrative of Nazi defeat
Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler
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Walking in Harvard’s ‘Revolutionary footsteps’
Exhibit traces University’s role in America’s birth — from campus barracks to Founding Father alumni
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Deterring the next nuclear arms race
Experts assess threat landscape amid war, lapsing treaties, declining faith in U.S. security guarantee
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Got personal financial, medical data you’d like to keep private? Good luck.
AI and society expert warns new agentic releases to increase odds cybercriminals, hackers will be able to breach secure systems
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Voting goes to court
Election law expert assesses challenges to state authority as parties look ahead to midterms
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How 3 mayors are combating homelessness
City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis
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What it will take to turn things around
Mitt Romney offers critique on nation’s divisiveness, foreign policy, value of hard, thankless work of governing
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Michael Sandel saw it coming
Philosophy helps us solve ‘big questions that matter,’ argues ‘Justice’ professor as he accepts Berggruen Prize
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‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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When is it time to dissent?
Legal, constitutional scholar suggests looking to judges’ practices for wider lessons
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Is a more perfect union still possible?
Faust, Buttigieg, and Glaude look at past, present of nation’s divides
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Writing us back from the brink
Researcher shares insights on letters exchanged by Kennedy and Khrushchev during Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Social media firms lost two bellwether cases, but future remains unclear
Legal scholar on next move for tech giants, chances of ‘master settlement,’ more
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Two Americas, then and now
Panel featuring filmmaker Ken Burns probes ‘disjunction’ between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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For U.S., war with Iran may come down to ‘markets and munitions’
Former Secretary of State Blinken details approach of past administrations, challenges ahead
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How high school shapes future success
Study associates 2 factors with better long-term outcomes, including higher earnings at age 30
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Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?
Historians trace role of physicians, medicine, disease during war in articles marking 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
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Want better schools? It’s all up to states.
Education scholar Thomas Kane says that’s lesson of recent ‘Southern Surge’ in test scores
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Ex-Trump envoy makes case for Iran attack
President acted in response to ‘culmination of threats,’ says Morgan Ortagus
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Anne Applebaum inspects the shards of post-war order
Atlantic staff writer weighs Ukraine’s future, ‘radical’ threats to global stability
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Aging independently, by design
Most older adults say they want to spend their golden years in their own homes. The reality is more complicated, says urban planning expert.
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‘Harvard Thinking’: Is marriage worth saving?
In podcast, experts dig into why wedlock’s appeal is fading — for one group especially — and how to make it work better
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Is social media responsible for what happens to users?
Landmark suit to examine 1996 law, questions about mental health, other harms, role of website design