Nation & World

Harvard Professor Roberto Gonzales talks about the findings of his report, the impact the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has had on the lives of thousands of young people who have benefited from it.

Alexandra Lahav, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, explains how a global settlement could handle the more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against drug companies and distributors.

Harvard Professor Joseph Henrich and a team of collaborators researched how a Roman Catholic Church ban in the Middle Ages loosened extended family ties and changed values and psychology of individuals in the West.

In his new book, “They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy,” Lawrence Lessig writes about the issues undermining American democracy, such as big money in politics, gerrymandering, vote suppression, and the inequities of the Electoral College system.

In a wide-ranging conversation Tuesday afternoon, activist Angela Davis reflected on a range of topics, from how music and art can help transform and create community to the challenges of talking about race in America to the need for prison reform.

Former career Ambassador Victoria Nuland, a top State Department expert on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian affairs, discusses the chaos in Syria, Putin’s biggest fear, and what it was like to be “Patient Zero” of Russia’s phone-hacking attacks.

“400 Years of Inequality” focused on how the effects of slavery have persisted, maintaining a basic disparity in health care.

During a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School, several leading conservative voices discuss why the movement’s political tenets still matter, even for a political party loyal to President Trump.

Q&A with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Harvard’s Project Teach helps students envision a future that includes higher education.

New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.

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.

Marking the launch of “To Serve Better,” a series of stories about people committed to improving communities around the nation.

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.

Veterans of past impeachment battles offer insiders’ looks into the politics, procedure, and strategy of investigators and lawmakers.

Cristela Alonzo weaves the experiences of her difficult-yet-joyful upbringing into stand-up humor.

Members of Harvard and the higher education community react to ruling in admission lawsuit.

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.

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a nuclear disarmament advocate, shares her experience.

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.