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Composer Matthew Aucoin is ‘uncomplicatedly excited’ for his new opera

The Boston Globe | 12.16.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Wrestling at Every Moment”

Pinker’s Pollyannish Philosophy and Its Perfidious Politics

The Los Angeles Review of Books | 12.15.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Can Science Justify Itself?

‘Mayors for Mike’: How Bloomberg’s Money Built a 2020 Political Network

The New York Times | 12.15.2019

The Massachusetts car economy is costing us $64 billion a year, and we barely notice it

The Boston Globe | 12.12.2019

Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes

The New York Times | 12.11.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Medicine for an Ailing Democracy

Yes, election winners should be supported by majority voters

The Boston Globe | 12.11.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Medicine for an Ailing Democracy

‘The Administration Is Assuming That We Are Going to Do Their Dirty Work’

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 12.11.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Graduate Students Are Getting Ready to Strike

The Myth of the Two-Parent Home

The New York Times | 12.10.2019

Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

The Boston Globe | 12.8.2019

The working class battles The Man in Harvard strike

The Boston Globe | 12.8.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Graduate Students Are Getting Ready to Strike