Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed her long-unknown Jewish heritage and her new book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1984, on Friday afternoon at Upstairs on the Square.

In her stump speech, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren likes to tell voters how she rose from the "ragged edge of the middle class" to become a "fancy-pants" law professor. Not included in the speech? Any mention of Warren's Native American ancestry.

U.S. Senator Scott Brown stopped by Mr. Bartley's Gourmet Burgers to finally get a taste of the burger that bears his name Monday afternoon.

Andrei H. Cherny ’97 has had many titles: youngest presidential speechwriter in history, bestselling novelist, Arizona assistant attorney general, Arizona State Democratic Party chair, business consultant, and research fellow, to name a few. And now he wants to add another: Congressman.

In a reversal of the typical pattern of many a campus conversation on the Middle East, the Israel Conference at Harvard on Thursday and Friday aimed to discuss ways that Israel can help the rest of the world rather than ways that the world can help solve problems in Israel, organizers of the student-led symposium said.

The Major League Baseball season may just be getting underway, but the Bay State's other great showdown, the U.S. Senate race, has been progressing for weeks. As the Boston Red Sox were preparing to celebrate the 100th birthday of Fenway Park on Friday it seemed the candidates wanted to play ball too—on MSNBC's Morning Joe, that is.

Former Utah Governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. lamented a void of leadership in his political party and the government as a whole at a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School on Thursday.

Bo Guagua, a student at the Harvard Kennedy School entangled in an international controversy left his Cambridge apartment with uniformed officials last week, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Massachusetts Congressional candidate Joseph P. Kennedy III raised $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2012, his campaign announced Friday.