Health Your memory might benefit from a multivitamin Researcher details ‘remarkable’ findings, but with a caveat: Healthy lifestyle needs to come first
Health Birth control for cats? Single dose of hormone prevents ovulation and conception in felines for two years
World How schools teach children about their social station Sociologist Peter Francis Harvey embedded with students at private upper-middle-class, public working-class schools to explore implicit lessons
Nation COVID prison releases expose key driver of racial inequity As incarcerated population dropped overall, proportion of Black prisoners rose. Researchers point to unequal sentencing.
Amendments should start with states U.S. needs to smooth process without lowering high bar for constitutional change, says Stephen Sachs DateDecember 5, 2022December 5, 2022
Change the Senate Disproportionate influence of smaller states creates ‘significant democratic deficit,’ Vicki Jackson argues DateNovember 29, 2022December 5, 2022
How demagogues wield social media Cognitive scientist also details research on different ways Republicans, Democrats use Twitter DateNovember 22, 2022November 22, 2022
Fighting for 9/11 families, first responders, vets Political comedian Jon Stewart talks to Kennedy School students about how he came to embrace activism DateNovember 21, 2022November 21, 2022
Enshrine an affirmative right to vote Amendment would demonstrate 'absolute commitment' to full participation in U.S. democracy, argues Tomiko Brown-Nagin DateNovember 21, 2022December 5, 2022
Will anything come of Jan. 6 hearings? Committee member Jamie Raskin previews final report, sketches out possible legal charges, proposals for election-process changes DateNovember 21, 2022November 29, 2022
Rushing to save her homeland — or at least its story Ukrainian bibliographer builds real-time archive documenting Russian war on ground level DateNovember 21, 2022
Halting rising violence against health care workers Law School discussion weighs effectiveness of legislation, technology, policies DateNovember 18, 2022November 21, 2022
A Cup as complex as world Mideast scholar untangles anti-gay, migrant labor, geopolitical tensions rising as soccer tourney set to begin in Arab nation for first time DateNovember 17, 2022
Climate change in urban America, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Calif. reservation Four students recount stories of changed life, efforts to fight back DateNovember 16, 2022November 17, 2022
Biggest loser in midterm election? The Supreme Court Veteran analysts sort through various surprises, survey changed political landscape at Harvard post-mortem DateNovember 15, 2022November 15, 2022
How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan Law School’s Freeman, Lazarus say new carbon-capture tax credits, EPA powers over pollutants can do much despite Supreme Court ruling DateNovember 15, 2022November 15, 2022
Heading South in search of the real heart of America Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book DateNovember 15, 2022November 17, 2022
Saying their names Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was ‘real person …with dreams, with pain’ DateNovember 15, 2022November 14, 2022
Let’s fix how we fix the Constitution Sanford Levinson on the ‘enduring dysfunctionality’ of Article V DateNovember 14, 2022December 5, 2022
November surprise Harvard analysts discuss Democrats’ ‘red wave’-defying performance, signs of desire for return to election normalcy DateNovember 9, 2022November 10, 2022
Mapping out a better society with focus on inclusion, environment New research looks at intergenerational tensions, Gen Z as coming change agents DateNovember 7, 2022November 18, 2022
Let the House grow! A better Electoral College requires a Congress as elastic and flexible as the drafters of the Constitution intended, says Danielle Allen DateNovember 7, 2022December 5, 2022
Baker blames social media, political operatives, press for fueling divisiveness Two-term GOP governor says TV character Ted Lasso offers sound advice: Be ‘more curious and less judgmental’ DateNovember 7, 2022November 7, 2022
Where are we going, America? Days before the midterms, we sat down with three scholars for a conversation about U.S. democracy. The mood was anxious. DateNovember 4, 2022November 6, 2022
Harvard defends admissions policy before Supreme Court Lawyers cite wider value of campus diversity on culture, economy of nation, push back against claims of bias against Asian Americans DateOctober 31, 2022November 1, 2022
‘Defend Diversity’ Harvard students join others from around nation in Supreme Court rally supporting race-conscious admission policies DateOctober 31, 2022November 1, 2022
Michigan, California speak from experience in briefs supporting Harvard Schools have struggled in diversity efforts since bans on race-conscious admissions DateOctober 31, 2022October 31, 2022
Unfinished business Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go DateOctober 28, 2022October 28, 2022
What to know about Harvard’s case in Supreme Court Lower courts, along with over 40 years of precedent, have approved using race as one factor among many in admissions DateOctober 28, 2022October 31, 2022
How Black thinkers wrestled with founding U.S. values amid slavery Brown University political scientist says Frederick Douglass, others found racial domination at odds with ideals of republicanism DateOctober 27, 2022
Lesson from Latin America for U.S. abortion rights movement Top jurists map out paths taken by Mexico, Colombia to landmark legalization rulings DateOctober 26, 2022
Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality Exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling DateOctober 20, 2022
Struggling to ‘hold up the sky’ Brazilian Indigenous lawyer talks about fight for Native rights, stewardship of land amid illegal mining, climate change in Amazon DateOctober 20, 2022October 20, 2022
No return to Camelot Veteran Washington journalist Susan Glasser details Trump White House years in new history DateOctober 20, 2022