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Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.

by Lincoln Caplan

New Harvard gift policy and more

A gift policy, and peer institutions’ new climate schools

by John S. Rosenberg

Re-naming Harvard’s Lowell House?

The faculty deans prompt a discussion.

by John S. Rosenberg

New Test Paradigm Needed for SARS-CoV-2

Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.

by Jonathan Shaw

At Home with Harvard: Traveling for the Story

A collection of stories we’ve traveled to report  

Balancing Mental Health and COVID Safety

Students urge closer attention to care on campus this fall. 

by Matteo Wong

Harvard University Press releases “Racism in America: A Reader”

Harvard University Press releases a new book, Racism in America: A Reader, free online.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?

A conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

At Home with Harvard: American Democracy

Our coverage of the nation's ailing democracy

First-Year International Students Won't Be Allowed on Campus This Fall

Federal visa restrictions will prevent freshman international students from living in the United States. 

At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway

Harvardians take to the stage.

Bringing Black History to Light

A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts

by Lydialyle Gibson