Nation & World

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.

Europe’s economic recovery is well underway, but the EU faces serious new threats, foreign policy experts said at a Harvard Summit in November.

Danielle Allen talks about her latest book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” a memoir of her cousin’s troubled life and death, and an indictment of mass incarceration and the war on drugs.

Sen. Angus King of Maine, who serves on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, discussed the latest findings in the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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Glen Mpani, a Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow, discusses the soft coup in Zimbabwe that has toppled dictator Robert Mugabe and explains what the shake-up could mean for the beleaguered nation.

Julian SpearChief-Morris is the first indigenous president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in its 104 years. The bureau is the country’s oldest student-run organization providing free legal services, and one of the three honor societies at Harvard Law School.

Rhodes Scholars from Harvard reflect on learning at Oxford, the world’s oldest English-speaking university.

“Suspicious of the privileging of the personal,” author and journalist Susan Faludi, who’ll speak at the Schlesinger Library soon, has written an unexpected look at her own life.

Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative brings 44 top business executives to campus so they can do something off course.

Shipping container visiting Harvard Divinity School gives immersive screen time with refugees living in Germany, Gaza City, Jordan, and Iraq.

Education experts have expressed concern that taxing endowments would harm students and faculty and could impact critical programs and initiatives.

The Harvard historian has a new book about five leaders — Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson — and what links their stories.

Georgetown Professor Michael Kazin says the ideas of the left are more popular than ever, but to succeed changes must be made — and he lists three ways that can happen.

David Shulkin, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke to Harvard Law School in advance of giving the 2017 Disabled American Veterans Distinguished Lecture at Harvard Law School.

Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Michelle C. Sanchez of Harvard Divinity School considers the legacy of Martin Luther 500 years after his 95 Theses set the Reformation in motion.

In a new book, Harvard’s Cass R. Sunstein discusses the vital role that the impeachment process plays in American democracy and dispels some misconceptions about the scope of presidential powers.

At a time when American politics are beset by deep divisions and regular paralysis, five U.S. senators told a Harvard Law School audience that there is real reason for concern and yet some hope for their institution and the country.

A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.

Six Supreme Court justices, five current and one retired, took part in an amiable public conversation at Sanders Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of Harvard Law School.

A Harvard panel on the future of cities examined challenges in planning and sustainability.

The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.

Fernando Reimers’ new book, “One Student at a Time,” follows graduates from the Graduate School of Education’s International Policy Program and analyzes the impact they make, the challenges they face, and the lessons they learn and teach as they try to improve educational opportunity around the world.

Harvard scholars participated in a Tom Ashbrook-moderated panel on global citizenship as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.

Veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer returns to Harvard to discuss the Trump administration and how the technological changes reshaping the news business are also reshaping our ability to process information.