Nation & World

During one of his first public events as the University’s 29th leader, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow signaled he will be a steadfast advocate for public service and higher education.

The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is housed at the Ash Center, is a collaboration among Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Now entering its second year, the program helps mayors govern more creatively and effectively.

Legal and political analysts across Harvard discuss some of the constitutional questions raised by the Trump administration’s actions, and the possible scope of a president’s power.

The Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard aims to ease military veterans’ transition to college life.

The ADL’s Evan Bernstein believes hate can be countered with a better understanding of the connected world in which we live.

A new academic program at the Kennedy School trains resources on an old and sometimes forgotten friend to the United States: Europe.

After surviving the slaughter in Darfur, Guy Josif Adam finds his way to Harvard Extension School with dreams of harnessing his education to transform Darfur and the wider turbulent region.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the country’s top court Wednesday. Kennedy has long been a crucial swing vote on key Supreme Court decisions, and his replacement…

With the World Cup underway, the Gazette interviewed Mariano Siskind, professor of Romance languages and literatures and comparative literature, about the world’s biggest sports event, the humanity of the biggest soccer stars, and the meaning of soccer.

After nearly six decades in U.S. intelligence, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talks candidly about what he saw and learned protecting the country, and why he’s felt compelled in a new book to speak out about President Trump and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

City of Boston official Brian Golden joined Professor Edward Glaeser at the Ed Portal for a discussion focused on the future of cities.

To help give local educators the capacity to bring thoughtful ideas back to their communities, two students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education recently offered a program on race and equity in education.

Lawyer and then-professor of law at Ambo University, Zelalem Kibret first visited a jailed politician in Ethiopia’s infamous Kaliti Prison in 2012, hoping to raise awareness about people arrested for challenging the status quo. In 2014, Zelalem found himself behind bars for speaking up.

A three-day symposium hosted by Harvard’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, titled “Participation, Inclusion and Social Responsibility in Global Sports,” probed issues of racism and inclusion.

Gabrielle Scrimshaw ’18 is a Gleitsman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. The first in her family to attend college, she plans to start an investment firm for tribal businesses and indigenous entrepreneurs.

Oren Varnai, graduating from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s mid-career master of public health program, is a Foreign Service officer in Prague.

On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Gazette sat down with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, to talk about Houston, architect of the legal campaign that led to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

Neither Wirun Limsawart’s knowledge as a doctor nor his work as a hospital manager could help him solve Thailand’s national crisis over health care malpractice.

Jee always knew she would take time off from her studies. What she didn’t know was how her time away from Cambridge would help her “fall back in love with Harvard,” and define her future path.

Margot Mai ’18 came to Harvard to pursue biology and pre-med, only to discover anthropology and change her concentration in her sophomore year.

Faculty and affiliates of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School weighed in on President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out the United States from the multi-lateral Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal.

Latest federal budget allocations allow Harvard scientists to push toward fresh discoveries.

Harvard analysts reflect on the life and legacy of ailing Arizona Sen. John McCain, who says in a new memoir that this will be his last term in office.

John Park, director of the Belfer Center’s Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the prospects for lasting peace between South Korea and North Korea following the historic announcement of their intent to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War.

About 1,500 Russian students recently packed a historic building adjacent to the Kremlin for a lecture and public discussion led by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel on ethics, markets, and democracy.

The Kennedy School brought together three voices of leadership in Africa to talk about the continent’s past and future.

A Harvard conference on Afro-Brazilian issues will honor the memory of activist Marielle Franco, who was gunned down last month in Rio.

Four years after Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo., young people of color are still dying. Still, as a panel discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum noted, a movement has grown at the same time.

Harvard conference on gender inequality probes possible ways to encourage maternal and parental leave.

Reporters from The Boston Globe visited the Kennedy School to talk about their seven-part series on race relations in the region.