Nation & World

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.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton and University College London epidemiologist Michael Marmot spoke at Harvard on the dangers and drivers of inequality.

Ex-governors from Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Vermont traded ideas for fighting the U.S. opioid epidemic during a Harvard forum.

Journalists covering sexual misconduct charges and the #MeToo movement stop to reflect on the seismic impact the Harvey Weinstein scandal has had on the wider culture and on the profession, and consider what more needs to be done.

The canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was killed by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980, reflects Pope Francis’ focus on “those who are in need.”

A Harvard student project won an award in Paris for its design of a mobile hygiene unit to aid refugees.

“Who Belongs: Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century,” Radcliffe’s annual gender conference, touched on topics as varied as the hijab and the history of citizenship in America.

New IOP poll finds that young adults don’t trust much, not even the big tech companies. Perhaps that’s why the findings also say they’re promising to turn out for the midterm elections in November in larger numbers.

Making “a case for the small,” Harvard’s Danielle Allen tells symposium that progress in Civil Rights isn’t just about breakthroughs.

Faith helped former gymnast surmount abuse by sports physician Larry Nassar, she tells Harvard audience.

Harvard’s South Asia Institute is examining the history and ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947 into what would eventually become India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

A Nieman Fellow recounts how he and his reporting partner broke the Panama Papers international finance scandal two years ago.

A federal jury found the former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for extrajudicial killings carried out by Bolivian military forces in 2003. Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic was part of the legal team representing eight victims’ relatives.

Harvard scholars reflect on the life, death, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn.

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.

Innocent victim or background contributor? Facebook now faces questions from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean after news reports in The Guardian and The New York Times this…