With the fate of Brexit up in the air, the Gazette speaks with Peter Ricketts, a former top diplomat and life peer in Britain’s House of Lords, for insight into what may happen next.
Harvard panel speakers differ on whether disabling the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote would solve presidential selection-system ills.
A new survey at Harvard and 32 other institutions found that the levels of sexual violence are largely unchanged from a 2015 study. In a Q&A session, Harvard’s co-chairs of a steering committee focused on the survey’s implementation discussed the new results and what needs to happen next.
Although she’s only a College sophomore, Winona Guo has not only found what might be her lifelong pursuit, she’s already made a considerable impact doing it —much of it, including co-founding a nonprofit and co-writing a textbook, before she even graduated high school.
Two years after journalists exposed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s stunning history of sexual assault against women, which ushered in a tidal wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations against similarly powerful men and the public social media recollections of assaults known as the #MeToo movement, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor discusses her work on the story with colleague Megan Twohey, which they documented in their new book, “She Said.”
Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs found in favor of Harvard in a ruling that upheld its practice of considering race as one among many factors when reviewing applications to the College.
Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith digs into the greatest unsolved crime in modern American history, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, to see if he can clear a man he believes has been falsely accused of driving Hoffa to his killers.
Adam Moss, now a fall fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, launches an eight-week workshop for students to consider the current business realities of political journalism and develop an ideal of a financially viable news site that delivers what readers want and need.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi will visit the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to take part in panel discussion and a screening of “The Price of Free,” a documentary about his life and his mission to fight against child labor and trafficking.
Harvard faculty react to the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump by the House of Representatives and discuss what it may mean for the country.
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
A new economic analysis of the U.S. National Park system puts its value to Americans at more than $100 billion, a figure that dwarfs the financially strapped agency’s $2.5 billion budget and underpins a call to change how what has been called “America’s Best Idea” is financed.
Jim Langford is the president of the Georgia Prevention Project, the MillionMile Greenway, and the Coosawattee Foundation. For the past decade he has been raising awareness about the rising drug epidemic in his state.
Alexis Wheeler founded the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program (CAP) to help illuminate the path to college for high-potential high school students from Western Washington school districts that serve predominantly low-income populations.
Madelyn Petersen explored her passions for business and human rights and community lawyering at Harvard Law School. She is currently interning with the Corporate Accountability Lab in Chicago before starting a clerkship with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Erica Mosca founded Leaders in Training (LIT) in 2012, an organization that helps prospective first-generation college students from East Las Vegas high schools finish their degrees and work toward becoming leaders in their home state. She is herself a first-generation college graduate and a social justice advocate.
Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.
Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria and discussed diplomacy negotiation strategies during a closed-door talk for the American Secretaries of State project at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday.
Emily Broad Leib is an assistant clinical professor of law, director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and deputy director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. As founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Broad Leib launched the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing clients with legal and policy solutions to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system.
Rye Barcott is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran living in North Carolina. He is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a group that aims to bridge partisanship in U.S. politics by supporting veterans running for office.
On Monday the man who has emerged as a celebrity of the Brexit debate, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, came to campus during a brief break from his duty as official referee of the popularly elected legislative body.
Brickson Diamond is the co-founder of Blackhouse, a foundation that helps black writers, producers, directors, and executives gain a better foothold in the film and television industries.
Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.
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