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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

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Image of Giant Magellan Telescope design

Brevia

No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more

Illustration of a watering can irrigating a city to make it healthy

Will Cities Survive Another Pandemic?

Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities

by Daniel Oberhaus

View of the two-tiered interior of the Armenian museum

“Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”

A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Rudy Ruiz

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki