Nation & World

Strategists predict powerful new technology will bring seismic shifts in U.S. political life

Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’

Sociologist Neil Gross argues polarization undermining education opportunities, lays out how students might change things

FDNY chief, admiral who survived Pentagon attack, Time journalist say decline in national unity since then is perhaps most damaging problem

Former DHS secretary says U.S. safer now than before 9/11, agency has largely successfully evolved with emerging threats

Fewer planning careers in academy, nation, and more doubt value of Ph.D. amid policy shifts in funding, international students

New Harvard Kennedy School program to focus on emerging issues, building bench of professionals, scholarship on negotiation, building and managing ties

Med School lecturer nods to wider implications in blueprint for Hungary

Origin story of Declaration of Independence involves more than just embrace of Enlightenment ideas, scholars say

Computer security expert says recent OpenAI, Anthropic breaches highlight need for regulations that balance safety, speed of development

Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems

Danielle Allen’s new book unearths role of Charles Lennox in supporting ‘radical’ writers, thinkers including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin

Kennedy School unveils 10-year strategic plan that features robust new focus on promise, perils of technology

Panelists dig into fraught legal, ethical questions at heart of fertility cases

Policy changes for research funding, international students threaten U.S. momentum, he says

How test of college readiness has changed with trends in education policy

Nicholas Stephanopoulos says probably not, but it may make it easier for wealthy donors to bypass individual giving limits

New book traces broad campaign to combat what organizers viewed as takeover of nation’s legal system by forces of ‘radical’ liberalism

Karen Korellis Reuther explains why it’s a problem (dangerous, even) in products, how more inclusive design serves everyone

A flawed first copy — dashed off in all-nighter — endures as template for democracy in action

Everyone sees through your fake cool neighborhood

In new memoir, Lamar Alexander says it used to be just elected officials, voters. Then came rise of more extreme activist groups, worsening polarization.

Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks

Houghton exhibit showcases newspapers, pamphlets, other media, offering on-the-ground view of what regular citizens knew, and when they knew it 

New research suggests increased exposure between groups results in more couplings across class but not racial lines

Sarah Isgur argues growing distrust of justices says more about our tribalism than any change in way judiciary works

Region expert Kenneth Weinstein argues real challenge in Indo-Pacific is economic, not military

Archivist says it’s an early example of ‘long tradition of honoring national leaders’

Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say

New paper by Cass Sunstein, colleagues finds poor early adherence but also suggests trying to shift social norms, offering incentives could help