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Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
by Jacob Sweet
Grass-roots organizing is focus of new book
Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
Noncommunication threatens Harvard mission
The perils of noncommunication
New York immigration activist Steven Choi
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
The Harvard’s Women’s Center and what it does
The Undergraduate writes about the Harvard Women’s Center.
by Julie Chung
Rewriting labor law from a clean slate
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for a revitalized labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
by Primus VI
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism
Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
Professor arrested, giving guidelines, and a grad-student union update
A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union
Short-term increases in air pollution linked to several new diseases
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.