Nation & World
-
Our self-evident truths
New book takes as focus ‘greatest sentence ever written,’ how it may help a riven nation recall common values
-
Steven Pinker wants to hear your ideas – even the bad ones
Psychologist takes issue with cancel culture in ‘common knowledge’ conversation at the IOP
-
What unites Americans?
Civil Discourse panelists debate how to strengthen national ties
-
Princeton leader defends campus free speech efforts amid ‘civic crisis’
Eisgruber, author of ‘Terms of Respect,’ says campus tensions reflect wider U.S. divisions
-
7 awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals
Brittney Griner, Spike Lee, and other honorees lauded for contributions to Black culture, scholarship, and civic life
-
Voice of DOJ experience makes case for ‘deference doctrine’
Visiting professor who served 3 decades with Justice Dept. sees urgent need to protect presumption of regularity
-
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.
-
An awakening over data privacy
Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School says democracy is the only antidote to the internet privacy crisis.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Why ‘truth’ beats facts
Harvard Kennedy School discussion takes a look at why we can’t agree on facts any more.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
‘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.”
-
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.”
-
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.
-
Reframing civics education
Harvard’s Democratic Knowledge Project bridges core knowledge, diverse perspectives, and agency to statewide pilot of new interactive schools’ curriculum.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Get your head in the game
NBA coach Steve Kerr visits the Kennedy School to talk both sports and personal politics.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Nonviolence in mass uprisings
Harvard researchers develop interactive map that provides detail about mass uprisings around the world.
-
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
-
High court press
Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Run, Jenny, run!
A Harvard physics professor spends a sabbatical trying to break the world record for fastest trans-America run.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.