Nation & World
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One way to help big groups of students? Volunteer tutors.
Research finds low-cost, online program yields significant results
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Footnote leads to exploration of start of for-profit prisons in N.Y.
Historian traces 19th-century murder case that brought together historical figures, helped shape American thinking on race, violence, incarceration
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Should NATO step up role in Russia-Ukraine war?
National security analysts outline stakes ahead of July summit
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It’s on Facebook, and it’s complicated
‘Spermworld’ documentary examines motivations of prospective parents, volunteer donors who connect through private group page
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How far has COVID set back students?
An economist, a policy expert, and a teacher explain why learning losses are worse than many parents realize
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What do anti-Jewish hate, anti-Muslim hate have in common?
Researchers scrutinize various facets of these types of bias, and note sometimes they both reside within the same person.
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No return to Camelot
The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser discusses her new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021.”
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‘Right this ship of democracy’
At Harvard Kennedy School, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney spoke about Jan. 6 and urged students not to be bystanders of American democracy.
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YA star John Green seeks co-authors for climate story that averts disaster
New York Times bestselling author John Green was the first speaker of the 2022-2023 William Belden Noble Lecture series at the Memorial Church last Friday with a speech titled “How the World Ends.”
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60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear threat feels chillingly immediate
Graham Allison looks at how Kennedy and Khrushchev stepped back from the point of no return and the challenges facing the West in preventing Putin from crossing it.
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Getting schools back to pre-COVID levels misses point, Cardona urges
U.S. education secretary says pandemic revealed pre-existing problems; now is the time to fix them.
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How to protect democracy? Don’t give up on your neighbor.
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.
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‘We can be better than this’
Freeman A. Hrabowski III praises, pushes Harvard in inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture
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Gift given, one left behind
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.
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Donald Trump, meme leader in chief
New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to take down crucial U.S. establishments, institutions.
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How to save democracy
Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.
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‘Be unstoppable, be true to yourself, but be just’
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky talks Russia strategy, nuclear threat, Ukrainian unity, leadership lessons at Kennedy School talk.
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Does the world need COVID novels?
Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.
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Was 6,000 B.C. a good vintage? Maybe in Georgia
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.
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Surveying global damage rippling off Ukraine war
Croatian prime minister details spread of economic, political, humanitarian crises, continuing authoritarian threats.
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Is war in Ukraine at turning point?
Putin expert Philip Short discusses escalations of the war by Putin, and says negotiations will be tricky and fraught
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No, Jason Bourne is not the real CIA
Former officials, scholars say nation’s image comes from popular media, offer insights into actual mission, history as the CIA turns 75.
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How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric
Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.
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When pipe ritual helps more than talk therapy
Joseph Gone details research on integrating Native healing practices into clinical mental health services.
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As alarming as test scores are, reality for U.S. students is probably worse
Professor Andrew Ho discusses growing inequality and how to help students recover ground lost during the pandemic.
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Breyer offers advice on being on losing side
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.
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Setting record straight on Queen Elizabeth II
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.
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California dreaming? Nope.
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.
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How ‘cult of grit’ masks myths about U.S. society
Emi Nietfeld ’15 talks about her memoir “Acceptance,” a powerful account of her journey from foster care and homelessness to Harvard.
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How did Biden go from zero to hero in public arena so quickly?
Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson on the political press’s sudden change of heart on Biden.
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Has the T hit bottom?
Kennedy School expert assesses MBTA’s historic shutdown and explains why so many major cities grapple with never-ending public transit woes.
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Neighborhoods as engines for social, economic mobility
Neighborhood groups come to HGSE with children from disadvantaged communities in mind.
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How to liberate African art
In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.
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‘Life of the mother’ is suddenly vulnerable
Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world.
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Were Jan. 6 attackers extremists? Protesters? Patriots?
How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Should Trump be charged in 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.