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Trump targets Harvard: What's at stake for US education & international students?
Quick Take

Trump targets Harvard: What's at stake for US education & international students?

In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer breaks down Donald Trump’s escalating battle with Harvard and his threat to cut federal funding and suspend international student visas.

​The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is pictured in Harvard yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2023
GZERO AI

Hard Numbers: Harvard’s books, A whistleblower’s tragic end, Broadcom’s boom, Getting brainworms

Election officials display a ballot paper while sorting and counting votes after polls close at a polling station during Zambia's general elections.
What We're Watching

Election crisis in one of Africa’s most stable democracies, Mecca agreement may get another signee, SCOTUS sides with Trump on mail-in ballots

The mineral-rich southern African nation of Zambia is slipping into political crisis following last week’s disputed election, in which incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema won a second five-year term.

Kosovo police officers patrol, in the aftermath of a shooting incident
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Kosovo indicts terrorists, Huawei tries to fold up Apple, Afghan women hold summit, Malaysia rescues hundreds of abused kids, Black enrollment at Harvard falls, The Swift effect

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott at a news conference on June 29, 2023.
Hard Numbers

HARD NUMBERS: Fentanyl ravages Baltimore, Argentina declines by design, Harvard denies degrees to protesters, Oz tries alleged mushroom murderer

​University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington.
News

A bad case of “academentia” that needs to be cured

University presidents should not have to duck behind talking points and prepared statements to answer a basic question about human decency. Higher education should not mean lower common sense.

Ask an epidemiologist: Harvard's Marc Lipsitch answers your COVID questions
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Ask an epidemiologist: Harvard's Marc Lipsitch answers your COVID questions

Do masks really protect us? Are children less vulnerable to COVID-19? And why do scientists hope you avoid indoor bars? This week, GZERO World is taking all of our burning questions about the latest in the pandemic to a Harvard epidemiologist. Marc Lipsitch is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. So, he knows his stuff!