Nation & World

A group of Harvard Law School students traveled to Puerto Rico over spring break to offer legal aid to local residents, who are still struggling to get disaster relief from the federal government, six months after Hurricane Maria.

Current and former NFL players took part in a Harvard Law School discussion on criminal justice reform.

Harvard Divinity School Ministry Innovation Fellows diagnose what ails America’s soul and suggest a course of healing in their study “Care of Souls.”

Academic freedom is an important pillar of open societies, but at a Harvard forum, two panelists worried that aspects of it are being targeted both globally and in the U.S.

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At Harvard, they explain their dedication to reducing gun deaths, and their devotion to keep pushing.

Simon Saradzhyan, founder of the Russia Matters project at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the upcoming election, in which President Vladimir Putin should coast to victory despite harsh criticism from abroad.

The DACA seminar, a series of events highlighting diverse facets of immigration, held “A Day of Hope & Resistance,” with workshops led by artists, poets, and musicians.

Harvard Kennedy School’s Swanee Hunt discussed the lessons learned from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide — key among them, empowering women — in advance of “Women Rising, Here and Abroad,” her talk as the Lowell lecturer at Harvard Extension School.

The successful effort to ban landmines could be a blueprint for a campaign against nuclear arms, Harvard Law School panel says.

Harvard is hosting a conference on prison education, bringing to campus for the first time formerly incarcerated students and activists.

There are echoes from U.S. history in recent political and cultural animosity toward minorities and immigrants, Harvard Kennedy School panelists say.

The Department of Defense’s new review of U.S. nuclear policy and capabilities calls for an end to decades of disarmament efforts and a return to superpower arms race, not just with Russia but China. The added dimension of cyber warfare further complicates matters.

The long history behind the #MeToo movement and its future impact were the focus of a discussion with Harvard scholars at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

A former chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service says technology and China’s rise are among the greatest national-security challenges facing the West.

An interview with Graduate School of Education Professor Roberto Gonzales, one of the organizers of the DACA seminar, a series of events that highlight diverse facets of immigration involving students.

The decline of white, Christian America from its long majority status has prompted national pushback, author says.

New York Times columnist David Brooks touched on tribalism, community, and more in a discussion at the Ash Center.

Tired of waiting for change, a group of articulate high school students who survived the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., have taken the reins from adults to push for more gun safety regulations to prevent another mass shooting. A Harvard lecturer suggests what the movement may need next.

A Harvard professor’s new book sees the Cold War as a much longer confrontation, dating to the 1890s and affecting many more countries than usually thought.

Philip Deloria has joined Harvard’s history department as the School’s first tenured Native American professor.

The inaugural Mahindras Humanities Center conference on “Migration and the Humanities” tackled different facets of the many population movements now crisscrossing the globe.

As part of the DACA seminar series highlighting diverse facets of immigration, five undocumented students at Harvard spoke about how they navigate elite academic spaces amid fears of deportation.

Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for The Washington Post, talks about the turmoil in journalism, the difficulties of covering the Trump administration, and the landscape ahead.

First as a candidate and now as president, Donald Trump’s expressions and arguments are pointed directly at the worried white working class, and remain a draw for his political base.

Two professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are leading a longitudinal study to research children’s development in both formal and informal early education settings in Massachusetts.

A forum at Tsai Auditorium marked the publication of “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy.”

As the fate of thousands of undocumented Dreamers hangs in the balance, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a champion of immigration and co-sponsor of the original DREAM Act, spoke at Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening about the difficulty Democrats will face next week getting new legislation passed through Republican-controlled Congress.

A new bipartisan initiative at Harvard Kennedy School picks up where the federal government leaves off, bringing together experts in national security, cybersecurity, and politics to develop practical strategies, tools, and guidance to help U.S. political campaigns protect themselves from cyber threats.

Political polarization has risen dangerously high in the United States over issues involving race, religion, and culture, two Harvard authors say. The trend could threaten democracy itself.