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Doctors urge probe of child migrant deaths: ‘Poor conditions’ at border increase risk of spreading flu

The Washington Post | 7.31.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Detaining Families Is Not Necessary”

A Racist Stuck in the Past

The New York Times | 7.30.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Urban Jobs Crisis

Geoengineering is very controversial. How can you do experiments? Harvard has some ideas.

MIT Technology Review | 7.29.2019

The false promise of nuclear power

The Boston Globe | 7.28.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Climate-Change Solutions

Harvard Law School group says 4 students targeted with hateful messages

The Boston Globe | 7.28.2019

Ebony’s Photo Archives Were on the Verge of Being Hidden Away Forever. Now They Will Be Made Public.

The New York Times | 7.25.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Work of Art

Inside Chris Hughes’s campaign to break up Facebook, the tech ‘monopoly’ he helped create

The Washington Post | 7.25.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Exposed

The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking

The New Yorker | 7.23.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

“The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem

The New Yorker | 7.23.2019

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Little Shards of Dissonance”

The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap

The Cut | 7.22.2019