Nation & World

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.

After eight years in the Obama administration working on human rights and diplomacy issues from the front lines, former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power returns to Harvard, and reflects.

In light of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, John Park of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs offers his perspective on the complex relationship between the two Koreas.

An interview with Professors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry, co-editors of “To Shape a New World, Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.”

Assistant Professor of Government Ryan Enos talks about his new book, “The Space Between Us,” in which he explores the influence of geography in politics and daily life.

Using her training as a first responder, Harvard anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte offers a front-line perspective on the tensions at the border between Mexico and the U.S.

Harvard Divinity School Professor David Holland examines the legacy of Thomas S. Monson, the recently deceased president of the Mormon Church.

The women’s revolt against sexual harassment and abuse: why now, and where to.

Harvard President Drew Faust said that the tax bill represents an unprecedented attack on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and charities because it taxes, for the first time, income for such an institution’s core mission — in this case, education.

Representatives from Harvard University traveled to Havana last weekend to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education. The agreement signals renewed commitment between Harvard’s 12 Schools and the ministry to support faculty and student research and study in Cuba.

A new national poll of 18- to 29-year-olds by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School found that two-thirds of young Americans are more fearful than hopeful about the nation’s future.