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What a Key EPA Repeal Means for America’s Climate Future

A Harvard alumni panel examines the impact of the “Endangerment Finding.”

by Olivia Farrar

Tea production in China, c.1790-1800

A Harvard Business School exhibition on early trade with China

An exhibition from Harvard Business School's historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.

Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Lenox, Massachusetts. The hall opened in 1994. With the “barn door” open, picnickers enjoy a concert.

Architect William Rawn, who designs buildings for the public realm, is profiled

William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.

by Craig Lambert

Students at work (clockwise from left): Denver Ogaro, Naomi Wills, Jun Sup Lee, undergraduate course assistant Ben Adlam, and Raina Gandhi

Harry Lewis on the Genesis of CS 20, an innovative computer science course

Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it

by Harry R. Lewis

Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”

Warren Brookes, "pneumatic" journalist, by Charles G. Kels

Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991

by Charles G. Kels

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

by Andrea Louise C...

The Murphy High School Marching Band before a game in Mobile, Alabama, captured in <i>Why We Are Here</i>

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

Thomas P. Wolf

A novel, "Sound," by Thomas P. Wolf, notated like a musical score

A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score

by Craig Lambert

Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute develops cancer-fighting nanorobots

Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.

Rutin, a substance found in apples, has powerful anticlotting effects

Rutin, a substance found in apples, could help prevent heart attacks and stroke.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

by Craig Lambert