Nation & World

Long-held habits have disappeared overnight as social distancing has become the new normal in the age of the novel coronavirus. What about the handshake?

Economists Karen Dynan and Kenneth Rogoff discuss the $2 trillion relief package and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard Law School faculty Charles Fried and Nancy Gertner discuss new restrictions on individual freedoms during the pandemic.

America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.

Harvard Medical School faculty members and their colleagues at Partners In Health are collaborating with local communities and national governments to help prepare some of the world’s most vulnerable people for the COVID-19 pandemic.

E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.

Laura Pérez Sánchez was awarded a journalism fellowship that allowed her to thoroughly report on Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria recovery efforts.

Seonjoon Young returned to her home state of Colorado to bring her trauma-informed training into the classroom.

Former U.S. energy officials urge a second look at nuclear power to combat climate changes.

Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School says democracy is the only antidote to the internet privacy crisis.

During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.

Psychology Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett and ethical leadership Professor Jonathan Haidt debate the regulation of hateful speech on campus during the inaugural Rappaport Forum at Harvard Law School.

Harvard Kennedy School discussion takes a look at why we can’t agree on facts any more.

Activist and Me Too founder Tarana Burke will receive Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Gleitsman Award for her work.

Harvard Fine Arts librarian András Riedlmayer catalogued years of cultural heritage destruction by Serbian nationalists in the Balkans. He then testified to their war crimes before the United Nations.

Latest updates on the new coronavirus from a Facebook Live event sponsored by the Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and PRI’s The World.

Harvard Kennedy School professor Kathryn Sikkink discusses a new ethics of responsibilities to deal with climate change, voting, digital privacy, and other pressing issues.

At a talk following a recent screening of “Just Mercy,” Harvard professors discussed the death penalty as “a point of meditation.”

As part of the 1776 Salon series at the American Repertory Theater, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown will discuss his book, “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.”

Greek Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis presented his plans for “Reinventing Athens” during a talk at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Harvard’s Democratic Knowledge Project bridges core knowledge, diverse perspectives, and agency to statewide pilot of new interactive schools’ curriculum.

In a new book, authors say Donald Trump is remaking the American presidency into something far more powerful and personal than the country has ever seen.

To allow more school principals to access their Leadership for School Excellence Program, instead of bringing Australian teachers to Cambridge, Harvard brought the program to them.

NBA coach Steve Kerr visits the Kennedy School to talk both sports and personal politics.

Neal Hovelmeier, a gay teacher fired from his job in a Zimbabwean school who is now a Radcliffe Fellow and Harvard Scholar at Risk, is working on a play informed by his experience and a curriculum based on intolerance.

Long-term exposure to the smoke-filled air hanging over much of the country could lead to many premature deaths in Australia.

Harvard researchers develop interactive map that provides detail about mass uprisings around the world.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger

Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.

In his book, “Do Morals Matter?,” Joseph S. Nye Jr. rates every U.S. president from FDR to Trump on the ethics of their foreign policy decisions.