Social Sciences
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage
Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.
by Daniel Oberhaus
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
COVID-19’s toll on black patients extends to those who never got the virus.
by Erin O'Donnell
The Upward Mobility Problem
Most Americans earn less than their parents did. Can community colleges bridge the gap?
by Nancy Walecki
The Broken Social Contract
Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract
Gun Violence
The impacts on survivors and their families.
by Jonathan Shaw
Building Native Nations
A Harvard Kennedy School course tackles governance in sovereign Indian territories.
by Juliet Isselbacher
Are We Entering a Second Cold War?
A discussion of Russia’s invasion—and how it can end
by Jacob Sweet
“No Limits” to China-Russia Relations?
How the Ukraine invasion might affect Russia’s ties with its neighbor
by Lydialyle Gibson
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
What’s next for United States’ largest economic rival
by Lydialyle Gibson