Professor Joseph Nye discusses how under the influence of the information revolution and globalization, world politics has changed in a way that means that even if the United States remains the largest power, we cannot achieve many of our international goals acting alone.

A conversation with Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who has had a distinguished career as an innovative educator and psychologist.

Miles Rapoport discusses how it's important to remember that our election system has two critical and longstanding problems that are barriers to achieving full and inclusive representation: consistently low voter participation and an electorate still deeply unreflective of our country’s increasingly diverse population. The solution is straightforward - make voting a universal civic duty.

COVID-19 is a global humanitarian crisis that threatens both our lives and our livelihoods. The outlook is especially severe for regions like Latin America, where economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and informality. Andrés Cadena discusses how an upgraded conditional cash transfer program can help Latin America so it does not lose a decade of socioeconomic progress.

Despite numerous, well-intentioned efforts to close the K-12 education and healthcare gaps in America, we have barely seen any progress. Why is this? Tom Hedrick outlines the problems and gives his thoughts on what we should do.

In order to overcome the disproportionate economic devastation that COVID-19 has had and will continue to have on millions of women around the world, Maria Bobenrieth, Aditi Mohapatra, and Marissa Wesely discuss ways we can achieve women’s economic empowerment and advance economic justice and rights.

There are a little over 60,000 individual species of trees in the world. More than 11,000 of these are at risk of extinction and 3,300 are critically endangered - meaning that without intervention, they will become extinct. Doris Honold discusses how U.K.-based Botanic Gardens Conservation International and their Tree Conservation Fund are working with communities to save trees from extinction.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading globally in early 2020, Victor Lopez-Carmen knew that it represented an existential threat to Indigenous communities. As one of the only Native American student currently at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chair of the U.N. Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, he rallied his networks and launched the COVID-19 Indigenous Health Partnership to leverage Harvard Medical School expertise in support of seven Indigenous nations around the world.