Power sees U.S. foreign policy on steep downhill slide
On Aug. 19, 2003, the first suicide bomb to hit Iraq went off with a roar at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, where the United Nations had been encamped for a dozen years. Among the dead was a Brazilian...
View ArticleSpeakers at Ed School say it takes a community to educate a child
By 12th grade, black students in the United States are four years behind their white counterparts in reading and math scores, according to national statistics that also show Hispanic students falling...
View ArticleThe achievement gap, a look into causes
Paul Tough’s prescription for making children better students sounds like a license to have fun: Read to them, sing, play, emphasize encouragement over criticism, and converse a lot. Research shows a...
View ArticleFrench PM: Cooperation is the key
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the world now stands at a major crossroads, but that acting together the United States and Europe could lead the way in solving economic imbalances,...
View ArticleA new look at the ‘Good War’
World War II has been called “The Good War,” often in contrast to later conflicts whose moral justification is seen as more ambivalent. But how did the Good War become good, and what aspects of it had...
View ArticleThe rights of children are focus of Bar Association conference at HLS
In the United States, a child is born into poverty every 36 seconds. Every six hours, an American child dies of neglect or abuse. And every year, the number of children in abuse investigations could...
View ArticleFeldman lecture to mark Constitution Day in Lowell Lecture Hall
Noah Feldman, professor of law, will present a lecture open to all students and staff titled “The Constitution and the International Order” at 1 p.m. on Sept. 17 in Lowell Lecture Hall. A free,...
View ArticleNew journal casts a critical look at the ‘Swinging Sixties’
From the New Left to the sexual revolution, scholarship on 1960s America has focused primarily on social protest and the counterculture. Now, John McMillian, a lecturer on history and literature,...
View ArticlePanel discusses Petraeus report, future of Iraq
The issue of Iraq continues to draw a crowd as another full house attended the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Monday night (Sept. 17) to hear a panel of Kennedy School professors discuss the recently...
View ArticleChanges to system and self necessary for health reform
Major changes, including personal and market-based reforms, are needed in order to bring health coverage to every American, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told an audience at...
View ArticleSeven outstanding programs honored as innovations in U.S. government
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Sept. 25 announced seven state, city, and local government programs as...
View ArticleFarmer, Magaziner: Get involved!
Physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer and Ira Magaziner, a one-time policy adviser in the Clinton White House, brought humor, counsel, and cautions to a public conversation on student...
View ArticleKozol campaigns for educational reform
At times as he spoke in the Memorial Church last Thursday (Sept. 20) Jonathan Kozol, educator, activist, and author, sounded more fervent than an impassioned man of God preaching eternal salvation....
View ArticleAt Kennedy School, Iraqi foreign minister outlines recent progress
“Iraq is back,” the country’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, told his audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government Oct 1. With the dictatorial regime of Saddam...
View ArticleConference celebrates tribal governance
Imagine the map of the United States as it really is. Not 50 states, but 50 states plus 562 sovereign nations — the 562 federally recognized American Indian tribes and communities that exist within...
View ArticleInitiative is designed to underscore importance of republicanism
Daniel Carpenter’s new educational initiative will reaffirm the significance of the history of republicanism and its influence on the American political system. Carpenter is supported by an $875,000...
View ArticleHow Sputnik changed U.S. education
Education experts said Oct. 4 that the United States may be overdue for a science education overhaul like the one undertaken after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite 50 years ago, and...
View Article‘Hillary factor’ among topics at leadership and women lunch
Is America on the verge of an explosion of “girl power” — a new level of female leadership in public life? There seem to be signs everywhere. The Oct. 15 issue of Fortune magazine trumpeted the “50...
View ArticleEdelman pumps up Memorial Church crowd
On Oct. 19 at the Memorial Church, while a heavy rain pelted down outside, Marian Wright Edelman pelted a near-capacity audience with facts about America’s social failings. An American child is abused...
View ArticleKSG panel: Early campaigning takes voter toll
The intense media coverage of a small group of presidential hopefuls is prematurely narrowing the field of worthy nominees, many political experts claim. In 1976, journalist Arthur Hadley authored...
View ArticleGlendon named U.S. ambassador to the Holy See
President Bush has appointed Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor Mary Ann Glendon as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. The president announced his intention to nominate Glendon on Nov. 5. A...
View ArticleClosing the ‘achievement gap’
The achievement gap in American K-12 schools is well-documented, and is characterized by racial and class differences. By the end of fourth grade, black, Latino, and poor students of all races are two...
View ArticleBorderless America
Sometimes what we call something changes the way we see it. Steven Hahn wants to call the groups of escaped slaves who found refuge in the northern United States prior to the Civil War “maroon...
View ArticleHoughton exhibit features ‘luminous’ historian
While Edward Gibbon was publishing his six-volume opus, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” a large portion of Britain’s empire was declaring its independence and fighting to break free of the...
View ArticleAtrocities attract healing hands to the Congo
The rape itself was brutal enough, but the woman’s nearly severed hand shocked Susan Bartels. It was early November and her first day working at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a provincial capital in the...
View ArticleTutu sees lots of negatives, a few positives, in American foreign policy
Desmond Tutu was a high school teacher in Johannesburg before he entered the ministry, and all these years later he is still very much the pedagogue. “Good afternoon,” he said emphatically as he...
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Film insists U.S. educational system is in critical condition
Last month Bill Gates warned Congress that the United States is dangerously close to losing its competitive edge due to a serious shortage of scientists and engineers. The problem required in part,...
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The Origins of Canadian and American Political Differences
Guns, government, same-sex marriage — the U.S. and Canada couldn’t be more dissimilar. Kaufman explores the history and culture of the two lands and asks why Canada is so close, yet so far away.
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The Race Between Education and Technology
Goldin and Katz discuss the U.S. educational and technological meltdown circa 1980, and examine the glory days of the 20th century when the country’s educational system made it the richest in the...
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A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It...
Sunstein breaks down the Constitution by looking at the diverse ways and methods it is interpreted. A heady book on America’s revered — and debated — political blueprint.
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Learning Lessons: Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy
With more than 50 years of experience in the economics and policy worlds, Fein dishes the lessons he’s learned on government, decision making, and more, attempting to breathe new life into our...
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In the footsteps of Du Bois
It was a change for the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. In a space that has hosted enough leaders and politicians to rival CNN, suddenly there was song. Negro spirituals by the group DivinePURPOSE filled...
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A tale of two continents
When Elisa New first picked up her great-grandfather Jacob Levy’s entrancing and ornate carved cane, she immediately sensed the unfolding journey on which she would embark. New, an English professor...
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Rebels to some, achievers to others
What do the American Revolution, public education, HIV/AIDS research, the living wage, and rock ’n’ roll have in common? For Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian, the answer is clear: They’re...
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Brain gain
The Chinese have an expression for what you get by studying overseas: du jing, or “a glaze of gold.” “You paint a gold layer on yourself,” said Hong Kong University social scientist David Zweig, who...
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When fear took control
“My mother … told me at age 10, ‘If you’re going to die, you’re going to die. There’s no sense worrying about it,’” historian and author Alice George said Wednesday (Aug. 11), recalling a personal...
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The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over...
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation’s founding, including the battle waged by the tea...
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The measure of the man
It was only when he was overseas that James Kloppenberg began seriously thinking about Barack Obama. “When I was in England in the fall of 2008, I discovered that there was so much interest in Obama...
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Obama honors Robert Brustein
The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2. The National...
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The gifts of immigration
Nearly one of every four Americans — 70 million — is an immigrant or is the child of parents from elsewhere. In Los Angeles, one of every three residents is foreign-born. The vast majority of U.S....
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Why the immigrants come
The image of the impoverished immigrant, whether depicted being jammed with others in the trunk of a car or ducking through the underbrush to reach the border, has become a cultural meme. The endless...
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Improving health care in China, U.S.
Health officials from China and the United States gathered at Harvard on Wednesday to examine successful reforms around the world and to exchange information on their own efforts, as the two global...
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Beyond mourning
Alma Guillermoprieto wandered a drought-stricken town in El Salvador, cattle carcasses poking from the dirt. “It was so poor, so poor, so poor,” she says with a wince, telling the story now....
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Comparing charts on health
Public health officials from China and the United States gathered at Harvard’s Longwood campus Thursday to compare notes on the health challenges facing the two global giants, including...
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Dots on the borderline
In 2006, artist David Taylor was driving along a remote dirt road, eager to get an up-close look at the United States’ border with Mexico, when he spied “a cast-iron obelisk incongruously placed in...
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From bad to worse?
With Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, relations with the United States have deteriorated to lows not seen in decades. But every coin has two sides, and...
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A focus on fairness
Fairness may be a necessity of human civilization, allowing people to share valuable resources. But does it develop the same way, and at the same pace, across all human cultures? A new Harvard study...
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The everyday response to racism
An African-American man in New York gets on an elevator with a group of white men, one of whom proceeds to tell a joke that includes blacks and monkeys. What happens next? In this case, the black man...
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How China and the U.S. might collide — or not
China’s dramatic rise as a world power rivaling the United States has placed the two nations on a potentially dangerous collision course, experts warned during a Harvard Kennedy School forum on...
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Harvard physics professor attempts record-breaking run
Her knee buckled like a folding chair, and then it was over. Ticking off an average of 61 grueling miles per day, Harvard physicist Jenny Hoffman, the Clowes Professor of Science, covered 2,560 miles...
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