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Bay State Banner founder Melvin B. Miller: ‘Young people need to know where we came from’

The Boston Globe | 2.16.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Tribute to Melvin Miller

House Committee Will Subpoena Harvard for Documents Relating to Antisemitism

The New York Times | 2.16.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Presidency’s End

Jewish Identity with and Without Zionism

The New Yorker | 2.15.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Near and Distant Objectives

Brooke Ellison, Prominent Disability Rights Advocate, Is Dead at 45

The New York Times | 2.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: 349th: A Lovefest

Are there too many elderly professors?

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 2.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: FAS: Faculty and Fisc

How universities can restore free speech and constructive conversations

The Boston Globe | 2.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Defending Civil Discourse on Campus

The conflagration that would consume Harvard? It began on this Palestinian activist’s laptop.

The Boston Globe | 2.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Dogs of War

A Legal Outsider, an Offbeat Theory and the Fate of the 2024 Election

The New York Times | 2.7.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Historical Record v. Trump

After crisis upon crisis at Harvard, a long-simmering issue is emerging: legacy admissions

The Boston Globe | 2.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: What Legacy?

What the 14th Amendment says about whether Trump can be on the ballot

The Washington Post | 2.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Historical Record v. Trump