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Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact

New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.

by Jonathan Shaw

Boston by Foot’s “Dark Side of Boston” tour

“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”

by Nell Porter-Brown

2018 Aloian Memorial Scholars

Two seniors who help make Houses into homes

by Nell Porter-Brown

Excerpt from “Not Quite Not White” by Sharmila Sen

A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.

New Ledecky Fellows Isa Flores-Jones and Cat Zhang

The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.

Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia

Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.

by Lawrence S. Bacow

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

“Rebellious Lawyering” author Gerald López: a profile

Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General

The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court

by Lincoln Caplan

Remembering 1969 at Harvard

An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.

by Brandon J. Dixon

When Capital Trumps Labor

In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.

by John A. Griffin