Nation & World

Professor Tommie Shelby hopes his book helps others who are trying to decide whether they support prison abolition over criminal justice reform.

Participants representing complex set of views engage at Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics discussion.

U.S. needs to smooth process without lowering high bar for constitutional change, says Stephen Sachs

Disproportionate influence of smaller states creates ‘significant democratic deficit,’ Vicki Jackson argues

Cognitive scientist details research on the different ways Republicans and Democrats, use Twitter.

Comedian Jon Stewart, who has done advocacy work on behalf of U.S. military veterans and 9/11 first responders for two decades, spoke about what he’s learned during a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.

Amendment would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy, argues Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Harvard Law School and Harvard College alum, previews what the public can expect from the committee in the coming weeks.

Harvard bibliographer Olha Aleksic rushes to save her homeland — or at least its story.

Law School discussion weighs effectiveness of legislation, technology, policies.

Mideast scholar Cemal Kafadar untangles anti-gay, migrant labor, geopolitical tensions rising as World Cup soccer tournament is set to begin in Arab nation for the first time.

Co-organized by several Harvard College environmental groups, an event on Nov. 16 will highlight stories of the impact of climate change in seven students’ communities. Organizers aim to highlight stories of students who are taking part in the fight against climate change.

At a Harvard event, veteran analysts sorted through various surprises of the midterm election

In the wake of the demise of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act may hold the seeds of its success.

Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book

Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”

Sanford Levinson on the ‘enduring dysfunctionality’ of Article V

Most political reporters and pundits agree that the results from Tuesday’s midterm elections have been a surprise.

New research looks at intergenerational tensions, Gen Z as coming change agents.

A better Electoral College requires a Congress as elastic and flexible as the drafters of the Constitution intended, says Danielle Allen

Republican Charlie Baker, who closes out his eight years as the governor of Massachusetts in January, discussed governing in a democracy and the duties of citizenship in this year’s Edwin L. Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School.

Days before the midterms, we sat down with three scholars for a conversation about U.S. democracy. The mood was anxious.

Lawyers cite wider value of campus diversity on culture, economy of nation, push back against claims of bias against Asian Americans.

Harvard students join others from around nation in Supreme Court rally supporting race-conscious admission policies.

Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.

Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to decide whether race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina can continue.

Brown University political scientist says Frederick Douglass, others found racial domination at odds with ideals of republicanism.

A panel on abortion rights and reproductive justice in Latin America explored the factors behind landmark decisions liberalizing abortion laws in Mexico and Colombia.

Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.