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  • The real trade-offs attached to going green with nuclear energy

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

    Panel with Meghan Sullivan, former Sec. of Energy Ernest Moniz, and ormer Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman,.
  • An awakening over data privacy

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

    Crowd of people using cellphones.
  • Comey defends ‘nightmare I can’t awaken from’

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

    Former FBI Director James Comey speaks with Eric Rosenbach.
  • Should hateful speech be regulated on campus?

    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.

    Panel of speakers at Harvard Law School.
  • Why ‘truth’ beats facts

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

    Gwyneth Williams and Michael Sandel onstage at HKS.
  • Me Too founder discusses where we go from here

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

    Tarana Burke portrait for Me Too.
  • Harvard librarian puts this war crime on the map

    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.

    Torn and desecrated religious books and manuscripts.
  • Health officials expect coronavirus to spread worldwide

    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.

    Michael Mina answering questions.
  • Feel that clean air and voting are human rights? It’s partly on you

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

    Kathryn Sinkkink.
  • ‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system

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

    Just Mercy film still.
  • The war against colonial slavery

    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.”

    Vincent Brown posing by a building.
  • What remakes a legend most?

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

    Kostas Bakoyannis.
  • Reframing civics education

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

    Students in classroom with computers.
  • Has Trump remade the presidency?

    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.

    White House in the spring.
  • Working with principals in fire-scarred Australia

    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.

    Woman with images projected on a screen.
  • Get your head in the game

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

    Steve Kerr surrounded by students.
  • A flight from homophobia

    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.

    Neal Hovelmeier at Radcliffe.
  • Australian wildfires will claim victims even after they’re out

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

    Aerial shot of massive plume of smoke rising from Australia wildfires.
  • Nonviolence in mass uprisings

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

    Person holding up peace sign.
  • How America went astray

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

    Photo of street.
  • High court press

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

    Harvard basketball team.
  • What makes for a moral foreign policy?

    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.

    Joseph Nye.
  • Flight from reason

    In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.

    Thomas E. Patterson.
  • Run, Jenny, run!

    A Harvard physics professor spends a sabbatical trying to break the world record for fastest trans-America run.

    Jenny Hoffman runs.
  • Creating an environment that fosters innovation

    Following a visit to Harvard Law School, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Kelvin K. Droegemeier shared the goals of the Joint Committee on the Research Environment and the progress being made.

    Kelvin Droegemeier smiling.
  • Two-parent homes aren’t the key for all

    A postdoctoral scholar and incoming assistant professor, Christina Cross talks about rethinking the ideal family, the limits of demographic research, and policy alternatives for alleviating poverty in America.

    Christina Cross.
  • Should Medicare for All be Democrats’ top priority?

    Health care experts discussed whether revolutionary change to a single-payer national health insurance plan or more incremental change from tweaking the ACA is preferable should Democrats pick up power in November.

    Panel discussing health care reform.
  • On the brink of war

    U.S. Ambassador Wendy Sherman discusses the dangers posed by Iran’s announcement that it will not abide by limits set forth in the 2015 nuclear deal, an accord she negotiated on behalf of the U.S.

    Mourners attend the funeral procession.
  • Unlearning racial bias

    Miao Qian, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Inequality in America Initiative, studies the development of implicit racial biases in children to understand better how and when unconscious prejudices and stereotypes form in the brain.

    Asian woman standing in stairwell.
  • From a royal palace to ivy halls: A dissident’s view of the Arab Spring

    Morocco’s Prince Moulay Hicham el Alaoui relinquished his title to press for democratic principles. In an Epicenter article, he assessed the Arab Spring.