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Letters
Cambridge 02138
Authoritarianism, labor law, climate change, and more
Greetings from Elmwood
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
What Counts
Faculty governance and long-range intellectual planning for Harvard
May-June 2020
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Features
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
The Federal Fisc
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
The World’s Costliest Health Care
Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Butterfly Wings in a New Light
A study reveals new dimensions to their function and beauty.
Linking Lifestyle to Stem Cells
Exercise attenuates stem cell production of pro-inflammatory white blood cells.
The Risks of Homeschooling
Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.
Frontiers...
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
John Harvard's Journal University news
The Campus, Quieted
The sudden dispersal from Cambridge and Boston, Commencement postponed, and the looming financial consequences
Susan Murphy
Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana
Rebooting Online Education
A push to emphasize learning rather than teaching
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Character Count
Widener Library’s overlooked designer
Brevia
Baron and Gates planned at Commencement, new Corporation member, a lawsuit renewed, and more
Divestment Digest
Developments at Harvard, Brown’s changed investments, and Yale’s engagement with companies in its portfolio
Will Truth Prevail?
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
A Championship—and Seasons Cut Short
A necessary but brutal blow
“Drip, Drip, Drip”
How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship
“Not Meant to Be”
Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
A Love Letter
John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.
Taking the Plunge
The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Fiction of Limbo
Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.
Setting the Stage
Joshua McTaggart leads London’s Chelsea Theatre into a new era.
The “Messy Experiment”
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
Chapter & Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
The Hollowing Out
Americans diminished by “social poverty”
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Historic Threads
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
“La Survivance”
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
Conferring Degrees, 2020
Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
Returning to Celebrate, and Eat
Where to (eventually, again) feast with friends and family in Greater Boston
Harvard Square Old and New
Looking ahead to a reopened Harvard Square
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
The Early Bird
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
The official 2020 slates
