Nation & World

As Earth Day turns 50, Harvard examines how it brought environmentalism into everyday life.

Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.

Derek Penslar at Harvard University discusses his new book on Theodor Herzl with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative, a series of white papers from some 40 thinkers on issues of justice, values, and civil liberties designed to inform policymakers during the crisis.

Justin Rose is working in Baltimore’s vibrant communities to help solve problems using data.

Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott looks at the international journalists who brought the world home between wars.

An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.

During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.

Q&A with Harvard’s Paul Reville about the impact of the coronavirus on education.

Working in real time, Harvard researchers are surveying correctional facilities to find out how U.S. prisons and jails are being affected by the pandemic.

The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.

Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.

Experts from across the University are calling for state officials to limit the number of people in jails and prisons in an effort to stop the virus’ spread.

Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.

Long-held habits have disappeared overnight as social distancing has become the new normal in the age of the novel coronavirus. What about the handshake?

Economists Karen Dynan and Kenneth Rogoff discuss the $2 trillion relief package and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard Law School faculty Charles Fried and Nancy Gertner discuss new restrictions on individual freedoms during the pandemic.

America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.

Harvard Medical School faculty members and their colleagues at Partners In Health are collaborating with local communities and national governments to help prepare some of the world’s most vulnerable people for the COVID-19 pandemic.

E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.

Laura Pérez Sánchez was awarded a journalism fellowship that allowed her to thoroughly report on Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria recovery efforts.

Seonjoon Young returned to her home state of Colorado to bring her trauma-informed training into the classroom.

Former U.S. energy officials urge a second look at nuclear power to combat climate changes.

Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School says democracy is the only antidote to the internet privacy crisis.

During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.

Psychology Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett and ethical leadership Professor Jonathan Haidt debate the regulation of hateful speech on campus during the inaugural Rappaport Forum at Harvard Law School.

Harvard Kennedy School discussion takes a look at why we can’t agree on facts any more.

Activist and Me Too founder Tarana Burke will receive Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Gleitsman Award for her work.

Harvard Fine Arts librarian András Riedlmayer catalogued years of cultural heritage destruction by Serbian nationalists in the Balkans. He then testified to their war crimes before the United Nations.

Latest updates on the new coronavirus from a Facebook Live event sponsored by the Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and PRI’s The World.