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A natural- and artificial-intelligence initiative, Allston agita, shopping week, reckonings on visual culture and “denaming”

A colored illustration of diverse voters in a ballot box from which the color is being drained

Racial Bias and Redistricting

Efforts to keep census data private result in voter undercounting in diverse districts.

by Daniel Oberhaus

Discolored trees over a vista

Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum

The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford

by Jacob Sweet

Phillip Golub playing piano

Experimental Magic

Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic

by Nancy Walecki

The Omicron Semester

Staving off the surge

by John S. Rosenberg

Cultural Commitments

Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture

Miller of "The Bay State Banner"

Countering misinformation and chronicling black success

by Juliet Isselbacher

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial

Open Book

Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace

James Kitch on a trail, skiing in front of a competitor

History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits

James Kitch on his competitive mindset

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait of President Lawrence S. Bacow

Presiding during the Pandemic

President Bacow on pandemic and academic Harvard

by John S. Rosenberg

A Verdant Cultural Retreat

Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph from staging of Eurydice, opera by Matthew Aucoin

Music and Language, Reconciled

Matthew Aucoin on opera

by Thomas Forrest Kelly