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Chart of Harvard Management Company endowment allocation and returns by asset class

On Firmer Footing

Robust financial results despite the pandemic, and historic endowment returns

by John S. Rosenberg

Cambridge, 02138

Endowment litigation, food waste, western Massachusetts

Blue sky, wintry day with snow on the ground and snow on maple tree branches

Natural Winter Wonders, Mass Audubon

Getting outside and enjoying the New England’s winter season

by Nell Porter-Brown

Illustration showing U.S. flag pulled different directions by an oligarch and ordinary citizens

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Portrait of Donald Hall 2014

The Poet of Old Age

Donald Hall, chronicler of life

by Adam Kirsch

Illustration of a collegiate hero, per Theodore Roosevelt in 1907

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Illustratio of a man sleeping on a mattress made of stacks of dollars.

The Saving Glut of the Rich

High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk

by Jonathan Shaw

Newspaper illustration depicts Richard P. Robinson fleeing Helen Jewett's murder scene

True Crime

Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media

by Nancy Walecki

World War II domestic propaganda posters urge civilian compliance with rationing

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Photo of Bloody Sunday during voting rights march, Selma, Alabama

Both Sides Now

Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s bifocal view of the civil-rights movement

by Lincoln Caplan

Lauren Williams

Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground

Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.

by Jacob Sweet

Lawrence S. Bacow

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow on Harvard Divinity School

by Lawrence S. Bacow