Colleges aren’t ‘social advocacy organizations,’ Dartmouth president tells Globe Summit audience

The presidents of Dartmouth, Babson and Assumption said American colleges should refine their value propositions.

Zelensky will visit Turkey in a new bid to jump-start talks to end Russia’s invasion

The Kremlin said that Russia would not be sending anyone to Turkey, and it was not immediately clear if there would be US ...

At Harvard’s Carpenter Center, performance as pollination — and pollination as performance

Tourmaline: The Lives of a Pollinator,” which runs through Dec. 21, is an across-the-Charles homecoming. Now based in New ...

‘Who gets to be an American?’ Globe Summit panel explores questions of identify and citizenship

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is threatening to harm the economy and challenges accepted definitions of ...

In a way no one would have predicted, justice comes for Larry Summers

The brash former Harvard president and treasury secretary has been in the middle of major campus controversies for more than ...

Sheriff Steve Tompkins’ lawyer pushes for dismissal of federal extortion charges

A lawyer for Suffolk Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins argued on Tuesday that a judge should throw out the federal extortion charges ...

Plea negotiations underway with Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant dodge agents

Interim US Attorney Brad Schimel told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that attorneys are “discussing potential ...

Harvard ignored warnings about investments: Advisers told Summers, others not to put so much cash in market; losses hit $1.8b

In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely successful head of Harvard’s endowment, and Lawrence Summers, then the school’s president, would face off in a ...