In new memoir, Lamar Alexander says it used to be just elected officials, voters. Then came rise of more extreme activist groups, worsening polarization.
“Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse,” an online symposium on April 8, will bring together survivors, public health experts, and religious leaders from various traditions to explore best practices for confronting and ending such abuse as well as promoting recovery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.
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.
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.
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.
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