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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.
Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day Speaker
The climate-change advocate and former vice president will address graduating seniors on May 29.
Harvard College student summer public-service initiative
Harvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
“Building on the Continuity”
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett, author of “The Human Swarm”
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
2019 Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The official 2019 slates
In search of deeper learning
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach