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Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Short-term increases in air pollution linked to several new diseases

Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseer and HAA director elections

The official 2020 slates

Leadership without good judgment undermines government legitimacy

The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.

by John A. Griffin

Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire

Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire

by Primus VI

Frontiers

A common plasticizer causes infertility, and fructose affects fat metabolism.

Index funds defer to corporate management

Index funds cast a large proportion of proxy votes in U.S. companies, but take a hands-off approach with management.

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins

A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey

by Jacob Sweet

Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book

Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Professor arrested, giving guidelines, and a grad-student union update

A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union

The Harvard’s Women’s Center and what it does

The Undergraduate writes about the Harvard Women’s Center.

by Julie Chung