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Ballots, Please

The Board of Overseers and Alumni Association elected director slates

Photograph of pioneering Wexner Center for the Arts

Architectural Upheaval

A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture

Photograph of Gary Jones standing in front of a tractor trailer truck

The Upward Mobility Problem

Most Americans earn less than their parents did. Can community colleges bridge the gap?

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration of 2022 Commencement with movie camera for first time

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Illustration of an eye superimposed on iconography from the national flag of China

Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage

Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.

by Daniel Oberhaus

The lower halves of two women stylishly dressed in bright colored skirts and high heels

Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks

How the artist saw community—and the world 

by Nell Porter-Brown

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