Nation & World

Two prominent European human-rights activists appeared in a trans-Atlantic Harvard event on Thursday to discuss ways legislation on that continent can and has been used to fight racism.

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan has been criticized by Republicans and rankled some centrist Democrats, but Harvard experts welcome the initiative.

As part of The Solutions series, we interview Jane Mansbridge about a proven idea to help citizens engage in civil dialogue.

Marcia de Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil.

Former Secretary of State Kerry calls climate change one of the biggest threats facing the nation.

The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.

“Making Schools More Human,” part of the Graduate School of Education’s Education Now webinar series, explored what was learned from the pandemic that can be used to improve education going forward.

Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.

A video posted by Amanda Nguyen ’13 was the starting point for Friday’s virtual JFK Jr. Forum discussion, “Protecting the Civil Rights of Asian Americans,” between Nguyen and CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang.

Stopping gun violence will take myriad approaches, according to David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.”

The Biden administration’s actions on the environment have been fast and broad, reversing many anti-environmental policies of the prior administration, despite being limited in many cases to executive action and targeted spending due to Congressional Republican opposition.

Former President Bill Clinton gave the inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy in honor of the late U.S. ambassador, looking back on his international actions that still reverberate in U.S. foreign relations today.

As Asian Americans face random acts of violence, a symposium looks at centuries of entrenched racism, much of which has been fostered, if not engendered, by the media and the fears of white America.

“Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse,” an online symposium on April 8, will bring together survivors, public health experts, and religious leaders from various traditions to explore best practices for confronting and ending such abuse as well as promoting recovery.

Maya Sen, a political scientist and professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, praises President Biden’s initial picks to fill vacancies on the federal bench.

Gazette spoke with Philip Deloria, chair of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, to learn about the importance of following both the law and the spirit of the process, what the Peabody has already accomplished, and its future plans.

Bridget Long, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the field of education.

The Law School panel “Reform of the Supreme Court?” looked at current problems in the Supreme Court, and possible ways to fix them.

Law School affiliates talk about the fight for racial equality at the voting booth.

Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, examines the roots of this current racial reckoning in the leadership that grew out of the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

Aaron Mukerjee ’16, J.D. ’21, discusses the The Voting Rights Act, which aims to help minority-language voters have their voices heard.

During the influenza pandemic of 1918, Harvard kept students on campus and imposed quarantine and isolation when necessary.

The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Two hundred years ago today, Greece declared its independence. From the start, Harvard was there, helping both in the fledgling Mediterranean country and back in the United States.

Anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, but after the Atlanta shootings that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, there is renewed sense of urgency to denounce racism and scapegoating.

Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations under the new Biden administration.

Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.

At a Harvard Lecture, Wellesley College Professor Cord J. Whitaker discusses Black history beyond beyond chattel slavery in the Americas.

New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.