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The Supreme Court isn't well. The only hope for a cure is more justices.

The Washington Post | 12.9.2021

After setting the standard for women’s hockey, Tradition honoree Angela Ruggiero has moved on to analyzing data for sports teams

The Boston Globe | 12.7.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Rush from Olympus

How to fight COVID, again and again: Rapid tests

The Boston Globe | 12.2.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Campus, Interrupted

‘I don’t think we’re back to square one.’ Beth Israel races to find out how much vaccines protect against Omicron

The Boston Globe | 12.2.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The State of the Pandemic

Harvard’s public health school forms partnership with Chinese university to tackle global threats

The Boston Globe | 12.1.2021

‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm

The New York Times | 11.30.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Teaching Humanities at West Point

How a Harvard-affiliated lab in Botswana became the first to identify the Omicron variant

The Boston Globe | 11.29.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Success Fighting AIDS in Africa

I Once Urged the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe. I’ve Changed My Mind.

The New York Times | 11.29.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Political Solicitor General

Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars

The New York Times | 11.29.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

The ‘active grandparent hypothesis’: New research explores how we’ve evolved to move more and live longer

STAT | 11.22.2021

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair