Nation & World

Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston says President Biden is on solid legal ground to mandate that federal workers get vaccinated against COVID-19.

After authorities say Haiti’s president was assassinated by a hired hit squad, a former senior CIA career official talks about the world of private armies.

Associate Professor Alisha Holland discusses the political impact of the pandemic in Latin America.

Harvard is sending a range of competitors, both current students and alumni, to the Olympic/Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

As part of the Gazette’s Unequal series, Tauheedah Baker-Jones, Ed.L.D. ’21, explains why we need critical race theory in K-12 curriculum.

This installment of the Unequal series looks at the how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America.

Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.

Former U.S. and Israeli intelligence heads, John Brennan and Tamir Pardo, told students that it will be up to them to beat back the threats posed by cyberwarfare and politically driven disinformation.

Study: Social context of coming-of-age date matters more than socioeconomics.

After a lifetime of struggle against racism and years pushing for the Juneteenth holiday, Opal Lee’s wishes came true this week.

In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.

At a virtual event, global experts examined obesity and malnutrition in the context of global warming, zoonotic disease, and other agriculture-related threats.

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the rising importance of “Juneteenth” as symbol and holiday.

The Supreme Court has asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on a lawsuit involving Harvard’s admissions policies. The request postpones the court’s decision on whether to take a case that could have dramatic effects on diversity on college and university campuses across the country.

CNN legal analyst and HLS alum Elie Honig discusses how former Attorney General William Barr weaponized the Department of Justice to serve President Donald Trump, and harmed the institution in the process.

Members of an independent panel charged with coming up with ways to prevent the next pandemic urged international action.

A new study finds links between white men having Black neighbors in their youth and later party affiliation.

Results of a new Harvard paper are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument against mass incarceration.

Robert Danin, a career U.S. diplomat, and Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and vice prime minister of Israel, discuss the potentially historic moment in Israeli politics as a coalition tries to end the 12-year run of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Christina Cross discusses new research that suggests that financial and other resources are also key to success for youth.

The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.

Harvard expert Fran Berman advocates for prioritizing public interest over profit with tech innovation and social and regulatory controls.

Rights activists and academics remember the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and focus on what remains to be done.

Citing 40 years of legal precedent and two lower court rulings in Harvard’s favor, Harvard on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the request by Students for Fair Admissions that it review the College’s whole-person admissions practices and revisit decades of case law allowing the consideration of race as one factor among many in higher education admissions.

Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the history of Texas, blending research and personal memoir.

The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

As COVID-19 cases in India soar and a new variant is identified, Harvard Chan School’s S.V. Subramanian offers some observations.

Madeleine Albright, Dina Powell McCormick, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro discuss the role of foreign-born Americans.

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.