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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

Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good

Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.

by Bennett McIntosh

Harvard Commencement 2019

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations

Harvard Portrait: Jason Luke

Harvard’s behind-the-scenes Commencement hero

by Jacob Sweet

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

Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji

Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism” 

by Jacob Sweet

Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora

“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova