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Is the Press Still Free?
A Harvard alumni panel discusses New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and threats to journalists today.
Scholars Advocate “Managed Retreat” from Flooding Coastlines
The question is no longer if, but when and how.
Crows Know How to Have Fun
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve: helping low-income families deal with debt
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
New addiction risks in the war on smoking
Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.
Animator Renee Zhan profiled by S.I. Rosenbaum
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
John Rawls and the remaking of political philosophy
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Ann Forsyth reviews “Saving America’s Cities” by Lizabeth Cohen
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
by Ann Forsyth
Isaac Kohane studies exceptional responders
Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas profile
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans