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Illustration depicting social fissures during pandemic by tearing of the U.S. Constitution

The Broken Social Contract

Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract

Repairing a Beating Heart

Robert Howe looks to make beating-heart surgery a reality.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ethnically diverse students are shown as ingredients tossed together in a metaphorical salad bowl.

Harvard's Ethnic "Salad Bowl"

Exclusion and belonging in undergraduate cultural organizations

by Swathi Kella

Sabrineh Ardalan

"On the Ground" With Asylum-Seekers

Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Letters

“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views

Historic portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Commencements

Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days

by Primus VI

As a singer and songwriter, Claudia García performs mariachi-inspired Latin fusion music.

Mexican Soul

How Claudia García got “mariachi fever”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922

Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson

Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951

by David Haig

Harvard Business School hybrid classroom for in-person and remote learning

Post-Pandemic Pedagogy

The future of teaching and learning at Harvard—and beyond

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration showing different quality masks with different levels of exposure to pathogens indicated by red dots on the masks

How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected

COVID-19’s toll on black patients extends to those who never got the virus.

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard undergraduates standing happily in Commencement regalia

Harvard Commencement 2022

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations

Phil Caruso with two Afghan translators

Harvard Graduates Leave No One Behind

The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over—but promises remain unfulfilled.

by Jacob Sweet