Nation & World

U.S. education secretary says pandemic revealed pre-existing problems; now is the time to fix them.

Anand Giridharadas discusses his new book, “The Persuaders,” which highlights activists, political leaders, and ordinary people who haven’t given up on changing hearts and minds in the name of democracy.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III praises, pushes Harvard in inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture

Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher gave the talk “The Pope against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice” on Thursday at Harvard Divinity School.

New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to take down crucial U.S. establishments, institutions.

Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky talks Russia strategy, nuclear threat, Ukrainian unity, leadership lessons at Kennedy School talk.

Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.

Currently Italy, Spain, France, and the U.S. are the world’s biggest wine producers, but Georgia is the oldest and among the most storied.

Croatian prime minister details spread of economic, political, humanitarian crises, continuing authoritarian threats.

Putin expert Philip Short discusses escalations of the war by Putin, and says negotiations will be tricky and fraught

Former officials, scholars say nation’s image comes from popular media, offer insights into actual mission, history as the CIA turns 75.

Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.

Joseph Gone details research on integrating Native healing practices into clinical mental health services.

Professor Andrew Ho discusses growing inequality and how to help students recover ground lost during the pandemic.

In his first Harvard event since retiring from the Supreme Court in June, former Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke to first-year students at Harvard Law School on Friday about his experiences on the bench and what he learned working for Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II presents the perfect opportunity to set the record straight and perhaps embark on long-overdue changes, said Maya Jasanoff, X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor and Coolidge Professor of History.

California’s move to ban gas-powered car sales will have ripple effects visible along highways and in neighborhoods where people sleep, and cars charge.

Emi Nietfeld ’15 talks about her memoir “Acceptance,” a powerful account of her journey from foster care and homelessness to Harvard.

Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson on the political press’s sudden change of heart on Biden.

Kennedy School expert assesses MBTA’s historic shutdown and explains why so many major cities grapple with never-ending public transit woes.

Neighborhood groups come to HGSE with children from disadvantaged communities in mind.

In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.

Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world.

How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Harvard Kennedy School political historian Alexander Keyssar discusses revelations about former President Trump and his top White House aides at this week’s Jan. 6 hearing.

Marianna Yang, a clinical instructor at the Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic at WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, discusses the rise of domestic violence during the pandemic.

Schlesinger Library holdings document long, pitched dispute over abortion in archival documents, photos, letters, voices of women.

Legal scholar Mary Ziegler sees “selective” history in SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and signs that other landmark protections are in jeopardy.

Ukrainian physicians from Mass. General and Brigham & Women’s are leveraging what they see as their most effective asset — knowledge — to help those back home.