Nation & World

Steven Pinker thinks “we will always need to push back against our own irrationality,” but that education, democracy, science, and journalism, along with an awareness of our individual biases, can help us embrace a more rational approach to everyday issues.

A conversation with Jon R. Star, psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, about how instructors can learn new ways to teach math.

Intelligence analysts and reporters discuss the enduring Havana syndrome.

Laurence H. Tribe, one of the nation’s pre-eminent constitutional scholars, spoke to the Gazette about the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 394-page interim report that details efforts by the Trump White House to pressure senior officials in the Department of Justice to help promote false claims that the 2020 election was rife with fraud.

Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene explains social media giant’s trolley problem

In a new book, “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,” Professor Claudia Goldin traces five generational groups of college-educated women across 120 years.

Washington Post political columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the key role women played in the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency in advance of her Oct. 7 virtual book talk at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Harvard faculty talk best practices in online teaching gleaned from a 2019 Harvard study.

Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy discusses his new book, “Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture.”

Harvard researchers have turned a spotlight on the sometimes subtle, yet effective, strategies employed by oil companies to foster doubt and delay action on climate change.

We asked readers of Gazette coverage marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to share their own memories of the day. Below is a selection of responses, edited for clarity and length.

Rationality can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake.

Despite the repeated traumas visiting Haiti this summer, HMS Professor Paul Farmer said he found reason for hope in the earthquake zone.

Harvard associate professor of sociology Ellis Monk says wording of questions, presentation, various changes probably affected census count.

Former Army captain Gregory Galeazzi discusses his time in Afghanistan, his long recovery from injury, becoming a physician, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Former Harvard students recall the confusion and fear of 9/11, the desire to do something, and the sense that everything would be different now.

Harvard Muslim Americans discuss the impact of Sept. 11 on their lives and what it means to be Muslim American 20 years after 9/11.

On the morning of 9/11, David Battat, a Harvard grad and longtime volunteer firefighter, got a call from his College roommate telling him that a plane had crashed into a tower at the World Trade Center and urging him to stay away. Battat assured his friend he would remain where he was, hung up the phone, grabbed his gear, and headed to the towers.

When the planes hit the twin towers, Jill Radsken was a reporter covering New York Fashion Week in midtown Manhattan. Within minutes she was a news reporter capturing a world-changing terrorist attack.

Harvard analysts discuss changes since 9/11.

A different kind of education awaited Joe Linhart ’03 in Iraq.

Faculty and staff from across the University recall where they were on September 11, 2001, and how they think about the attacks 20 years later.

In his new book, “Our Own Worst Enemy,” Extension School instructor Tom Nichols writes that the greatest threat to American democracy is the growing narcissism and nihilism of the public.

Experts from the Harvard Graduate School of Education offer advice to parents and teachers on how to ease student anxiety as another pandemic school year begins.

The director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative talks about Afghanistan’s probable future without aid.

In a new book, “Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business,” Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro argue that power is available to everyone and is a necessary force for change.

Tony Saich on how Beijing views the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Belfer Center’s Lauren Zabierek reflects on her service in Afghanistan — and her brother’s — amid the humanitarian chaos unleashed by the Taliban’s rout of U.S.-backed forces.

Every year, nearly 700 million people suffer from hunger around the world, while 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away.

Remembering Harvard Medical School grad Joan Ullyot, the long-distance runner who normalized running for women around the world.