Lydialyle Gibson

Oct 16, 2024 | ischool.berkeley.edu | Lydialyle Gibson

From Harvard MagazineBy Lydialyle GibsonIn Early 2016, as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign emerged from the Republican pack and Hillary Clinton battled Bernie Sanders through a long Democratic primary season, computer scientist Latanya Sweeney launched a new research project. For more than a decade, information technology had become an increasingly dominant presence in American politics. By that election year, social media, online campaigning, and digital voter records seemed to be everywhere.

Feb 12, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Lydialyle Gibson

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Jan 16, 2024 | vox.com | Lydialyle Gibson

The opioid crisis doesn’t get as many headlines as it used to before Covid-19, but the news remains stubbornly, shockingly bad. Decades into the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in American history, people are dying at higher rates than ever. Between 2017 and 2021, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids jumped from 47,600 to 80,411 — many more Americans than are killed each year by guns or cars.

Aug 7, 2023 | harvardmagazine.com | Lydialyle Gibson

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Aug 7, 2023 | harvardmagazine.com | Lydialyle Gibson

On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, historian Serhii Plokhy was on sabbatical in Vienna, researching a new book about Chernobyl. He’d spent months sifting through documents in the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, sometimes long into the night. On what turned out to be his last working day there, February 24, 2022, he woke up at 6 a.m. to find an email from a Harvard colleague: “I hope you are OK,” it read. Immediately, he knew the war had begun.