John Harvard's Journal

Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

The Faculty Faces Its Future

Better results than expected during the pandemic, and a sweeping effort to plan for academic improvements

by John S. Rosenberg

News Briefs

Legacies challenged, campus sustainability, affirmative-action litigation, and honored scientists

by John S. Rosenberg

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Brevia

No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more

Culinary Postcards

Food has always been a contentious topic among undergraduates.

by Swathi Kella

Harvard Football’s Stolen Ivy Title

The Crimson’s final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.

by Dick Friedman

Bruno Carvalho

An urbanist’s lifelong study of the “rhythm of cities,” from Rio to Cambridge 

by Nancy Walecki

Elevating Climate Issues

Bacow names economist James Stock to a new position, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability

by Jonathan Shaw

“Decarcerating” America

A Law School institute facilitates change “from the ground up.”

by Nancy Walecki

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history