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A Sister’s Plea for Her Brother’s Freedom

Rayhan Asat is speaking out against the imprisonment of her brother Ekpar, drawing attention to the plight of Uighurs in China.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Repatriating Native American Remains

Disputes over the disposition of sensitive collections shadow Peabody Museum

by Juliet Isselbacher

Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy

Harvard's Carpenter Center highlights works by Katherine Bradford and Diedrick Bracken

by Nell Porter-Brown

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

An election-law scholar and litigator zeroes in on political gerrymandering.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Letters from our readers

Restorative justice, Radcliffe rebranded, endowment reparations

How Harvard Profited On Keeping Time

Harvard’s clocks and the standardization of time

by Jacob Sweet

Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

The State of the Pandemic

Lessons learned from the continuing confrontation with the coronavirus

by Jonathan Shaw

edX Exit

Harvard and MIT sell to a for-profit company, and pursue their mission with a new model.

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Raising the Estimate of Sea Level Rise

The effect of post-glacial rebound was overlooked in the West Antarctic

by Nancy Walecki

Harvard Square’s Best

What’s new—and unchanged—in the historic heart of Cambridge

by Nell Porter-Brown

Improvised Cuisine

The joys of cooking with Sam Sifton of The New York Times

by Craig Lambert