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‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ for the Return of Low Interest Rates

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses the global forces driving up borrowing costs.

by Olivia Farrar

Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

by Veronique Greenwood

Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates

The slates for this spring’s ballot

Reengineering Arts and Sciences

Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support

by John S. Rosenberg

George Sarrinikolaou

Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard

by Nina Pasquini

Computational Control of a Living Brain?

How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.

by Jonathan Shaw