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Tough love between U.S., Pakistan
The foreign minister of Pakistan had a blunt message for the United States: No matter how much aid you give us, if you do not respect Pakistan’s sovereignty, if you launch unmanned drone attacks over...
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Partnerships, training key to global health
Organizational partnerships, the training of local medical personnel, and increased engagement by academic medical centers to deliver care where it’s needed are all important if the present push to...
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Northern exposure
It all started one night in 2004 over dinner at the Charles Hotel. Professor Michael Ignatieff and his wife, Zsuzsanna, sat down with three mysterious strangers, whom the couple later referred to as...
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Universities as peacemakers
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Dean David Hempton knows too well the cost of religious conflict. As a college student in Belfast in the 1970s, he witnessed the “tragedies of violence” that marked “The...
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Facing ‘the challenge of our generation’
It’s a daunting portfolio of complex and dangerous challenges around the world, unendingly vexing in both their depth and variety. There is Syria’s civil war and the brutality of the Islamic State,...
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Faust: Step up on climate change
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking at a State Department forum on Tuesday, Harvard President Drew Faust said that universities can and must play a key role in developing solutions to climate change, citing...
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Targeting the ills of climate change
The effects of climate change almost always have an element that harms human health, whether it’s heat waves, droughts, spreading disease, or other devastating events. That’s why Secretary of State...
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Gina McCarthy to lead Harvard Chan School’s center for health and environment
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health relaunched its center for health and environment on Wednesday, announcing a new name, a new director, and a new collaboration with Google to reduce indoor...
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In Harvard visit, John Kerry ponders America’s problems, prospects
Though he left government service early last year at the close of the Obama administration, former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, now 74, certainly doesn’t look — or sound — like a man ready to...
View ArticleReporters recount torments in Iranian prison
It was a Kafkaesque nightmare even before Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi was savagely murdered. An American journalist working in Iran, hoping to bridge the gap between the two countries through his...
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