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Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”

The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.


by Olivia Schwob

Harvard late-winter and early-spring sports wrap-up

Late winter and early spring highlights

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fossil-fuel-free goal, shopping week RIP, and more

News briefs, from green-energy goals and a move to course preregistration to final-club final sanctions

by John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova

Dipayan Ghosh on how Russia hacked its way into our politics

The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.

by Oset Babür

T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewed

The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.

by John S. Rosenberg

“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life

James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”

by Lincoln Caplan

The Undergraduate shifts from physics to psychology

The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.

by Tawanda Mulalu

FAS dean to step down and more

FAS dean to step down, John Lewis to speak at Commencement, Hillary Clinton at Radcliffe, and more

New restaurants in Cambridge

Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard president-elect Lawrence Bacow’s agenda

Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions 

Chaucer for young ladies, Philip Kuhn, TR, and more

When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism

by Primus VI