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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.

by Olivia Farrar

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.

by Nell Porter-Brown

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard College course shopping period

Undergraduates’ flexibility in registering for courses is retained for at least a year or two.

by John S. Rosenberg

Replacement of Iberian Men 4,000 Years Ago Raises Fresh Questions

Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.

by Bennett McIntosh

Excavating 1968

The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Adams House Renewal

A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House

by John S. Rosenberg