Harvard University Archives

Republican senators used racially coded language to question Ketanji Brown Jackson. There’s history to that.

Sharon Wright Austin - March 28, 2022

Compare that to the language senators used to grill Constance Baker Motley in 1966, slowing down her confirmation as the first Black female federal judge.

Ukraine invasion tests the relationship between Russia and China

Elizabeth Wishnick and Andrew Taffer - March 14, 2022

Their ‘unlimited’ partnership may have some limits after all

Justices will hear a challenge to affirmative action that isn’t really about affirmative action

Sharad Goel and Julian Nyarko - February 21, 2022

If the Supreme Court finds that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans, the remedy doesn’t require dismantling affirmative action

A new bill in Congress would end ‘legacy’ college preferences. Here’s why that matters.

Jasmine Harris - February 14, 2022

‘Legacy’ admissions were introduced to keep elite schools White. My research finds that that’s hurting Black and Brown students today.

Democrats are rewriting Build Back Better. Here’s what Black and Latina women activists say they need.

Margaret Teresa Brower - February 4, 2022

Advocates for working women are more excited about packaging child-care support and family leave together than about either policy separately.

The Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate ruling shows it’s ready to second-guess government policy

Stephen I. Vladeck - January 18, 2022

For decades, the court deferred to the government’s judgment. Now it’s heading back to the Lochner era.

Here’s what we know about Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine.

Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg - January 14, 2022

Deploying troops in a forward posture indefinitely really isn’t an option.

Frances McCall Rosenbluth, a Yale University scholar, understood Japanese politics and so much more

Tom Pepinsky, Tarek Masoud, Rafaela Dancygier, and Dawn Teele - December 23, 2021

From party politics to gender inequality, Rosenbluth’s research broke many long-held assumptions

More Americans than usual have been changing parties. Why?

Sean Bock and Landon Schnabel - December 16, 2021

Here’s what our research found

In Bulgaria’s third election in 2021, another new party won the most seats. But can it form a government?

Tim Haughton, Kevin Deegan-Krause, and Emilia Zankina - November 19, 2021

New parties do well by taking aim at corruption, then struggle to govern.