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Linda Bilmes is doing the math
Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’
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What it’s really like to be young
Harvard faculty recommend books that capture youth in all its joy and agony
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You like Ike. But AI may help campaigns figure how to ensure you actually vote
Strategists predict powerful new technology will bring seismic shifts in U.S. political life
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Clinical Characterization of Invasive Meningococcal Disease Epidemic, Uzbekistan, 2026
B. B. Rakhimov et al.
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Emergence of Macrolide-Resistant Bordetella pertussis, Peru, 2025
E. Juscamayta-López et al.
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Estimated Transmissibility and Case Fatality Rate of Bundibugyo Virus, Uganda, 2007
B. de Padua and A. R. Akhmetzhanov
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Reforms to Hungary's Anti-LBGT Laws Welcome, but More to Do
Click to expand Image People attend the Budapest Pride March in Budapest, Hungary, June 27, 2026. © 2026 Marton Monus/Reuters Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era—the…
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China: New Border Decree Curtails Right to Leave
Click to expand Image An Air China Boeing 777-300 at Beijing Capital International Airport, April 10, 2025. © 2025 Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – A new Chinese government decree expands the discretion of administrative authorities to…
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French Prosecutors Seek Up to 5 Years in Prison for Sons of Ex-Yemeni President Saleh Over Ill-Gotten Assets
French prosecutors are seeking prison sentences and the formal forfeiture of luxury Paris real estate and Swiss bank accounts, accusing the sons of late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh of laundering millions in embezzled state funds.
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Thousands Protest in Malta as Alleged Mastermind Walks Free
Demonstrators in Valletta moved from nearly nine years of vigils to a protest demanding political accountability in response to the acquittal of Yorgen Fenech, the businessman accused of orchestrating the 2017 assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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