Nation & World

Maya Sen, a political scientist and professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, praises President Biden’s initial picks to fill vacancies on the federal bench.

Gazette spoke with Philip Deloria, chair of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, to learn about the importance of following both the law and the spirit of the process, what the Peabody has already accomplished, and its future plans.

Bridget Long, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the field of education.

The Law School panel “Reform of the Supreme Court?” looked at current problems in the Supreme Court, and possible ways to fix them.

Law School affiliates talk about the fight for racial equality at the voting booth.

Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, examines the roots of this current racial reckoning in the leadership that grew out of the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

Aaron Mukerjee ’16, J.D. ’21, discusses the The Voting Rights Act, which aims to help minority-language voters have their voices heard.

During the influenza pandemic of 1918, Harvard kept students on campus and imposed quarantine and isolation when necessary.

The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Two hundred years ago today, Greece declared its independence. From the start, Harvard was there, helping both in the fledgling Mediterranean country and back in the United States.

Anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, but after the Atlanta shootings that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, there is renewed sense of urgency to denounce racism and scapegoating.

Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations under the new Biden administration.

Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.

At a Harvard Lecture, Wellesley College Professor Cord J. Whitaker discusses Black history beyond beyond chattel slavery in the Americas.

New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.

In an excerpt from “400 Souls,” Harvard’s Tiya Miles discusses Chief Pontiac seeking a visible status symbol in a boy enslaved by an officer.

Former Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch ’01, M.P.P. ’08, J.D. ’08, started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Navajo and Hopi communities respond to the coronavirus pandemic. She has raised $18 million.

Criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff wrote a book about how the misdemeanor system punishes the poor and people of color. The book has inspired a documentary film, which will be released on March 11.

Former diplomat Madeleine Albright says sexism was a bigger hurdle at home than abroad.

Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.

A neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but on those of the neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by.

The Harvard University Native American Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We look at how it started and its hopes for the future.

In a new audiobook “Takeover,” Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman explores the rise of the Federalist Society.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi discussed his recent trip to Iran, his negotiations with Iranian leaders, along with the extra burdens placed on his agency by the dangers of the pandemic.

A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.

The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.

In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.

President Biden’s release of 2018 U.S. intelligence report on murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi sets the stage for a significant shift in U.S.-Saudi relations from Trump era.

Experts say approach must be comprehensive as roots are embedded in culture

Ana Billingsley, assistant director with the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines inequities in the criminal justice system.