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A street crowd of black men and women, all dressed in white, either playing or responding to the playing of dozens of trombones

Frank Stewart’s jazz photography

“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard

by Nell Porter-Brown

2019 Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Honoring outstanding alumni interviewers for the College

Photograph of Jimmy Hoffa and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964

Excerpt from Jack Goldsmith, “In Hoffa’s Shadow”

A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”

Photograph of Giang T. Nguyen

New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more

New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more

A judge presides over an urban landscape from atop a tall building

Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?

In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?

by Cherone Duggan

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of President Donald Trump and Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio

Lincoln Caplan reviews “When Should Law Forgive?” by Martha Minow

…and don’t always forgive

by Lincoln Caplan

A spoof passport written in Spanglish for the fictional country El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, with a domino in place of a national seal on its cover

Harvard Art Museums exhibit displays the ubiquity of cross-border movement

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

A graph showing the performance of the Harvard endowment from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2019

Modest returns: Harvard endowment up 4.3 percent

The endowment rises to $40.9 billion in a year of more modest investment returns.

by John S. Rosenberg

Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students

Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students

A grinning woman in traditional Nigerian dress sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by modern devices, including a power strip, a land-line telephone, and a desktop computer displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire montage.

Fatimah Tuggar at the Davis Museum

Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photo of Michelle Walsh and Benjamin Roy

Aloian Memorial Scholars for 2019 named

Honoring those who enrich the quality of life in their Houses