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The Faculty’s Fears

Arts and Sciences engages with the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.

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Housing in the Climate Crosshairs

A Harvard briefing on climate change and the U.S. housing crisis

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How to Protest Effectively

A Harvard Kennedy School panel on today’s resistance movements

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Remembering Earl Kim

A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.

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Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Part of concerted effort to target campuses labeled antisemitic

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Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline

After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.

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Montage | March-April 2025

Cruel and Unjust

A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime

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Features
March-April 2025

Making Schools Work

Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education.

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March-April 2025

Teen Grind Culture

Teens need better strategies to cope with lives lived partly online.

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University People
March-April 2025

AI Anxiety

The Undergraduate on the uneasy collision of technology and writing

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What’s in that $9 billion the Trump administration is reviewing at Harvard?

The Boston Globe | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can?

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s Top Editor, Steps Down

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Curator of American Culture

Trump’s Pick to Argue at Supreme Court Made His Career in Culture Wars

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Political Solicitor General

Coal Plant Ranked as Nation’s Dirtiest Asks for Pollution Exemption

The New York Times | 4.2.2025

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Supreme Court upholds FDA’s rejection of fruit-flavored vape liquids

The Washington Post | 4.2.2025

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What’s in that $9 billion the Trump administration is reviewing at Harvard?

The Boston Globe | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can?

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s Top Editor, Steps Down

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Curator of American Culture

Trump’s Pick to Argue at Supreme Court Made His Career in Culture Wars

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

What’s in that $9 billion the Trump administration is reviewing at Harvard?

The Boston Globe | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can?

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s Top Editor, Steps Down

The New York Times | 4.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Curator of American Culture

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Features
March-April 2023

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

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Features
March-April 2024

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

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Right Now
March-April 2022

Social Media Use and Adult Depression

A survey reveals suprising links between social media use and depression in adults.

Harvard Squared
March-April 2022

A Verdant Cultural Retreat

Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.

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Right Now
March-April 2023

The Senior Housing Shortfall

As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”

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Features
March-April 2024

Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

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Montage
March-April 2023

Attuned to Pianos

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

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University People
March-April 2023

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph