Features
A Justice’s Modest Counsel
Remembering David Souter ’61, LL.B. ’66
by Joshua D. Harlan
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Quality of Care
Lisa Iezzoni explores the unmet needs of patients with disabilities.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
by Joyce E. Chaplin
The New Gender Gaps
What to do as men and boys fall behind
by Nina Pasquini
Safe Streets
Working to curb road deaths
by Max J. Krupnick
Making Schools Work
Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education.
by Nina Pasquini
Walter E. Fernald
From enlightened care for the intellectually disabled, to eugenics, and back
by Alex Green
The Unruly Academy
President emeritus Neil L. Rudenstine on changes in the academy and society that made universities more contentious—and diminished support for humane learning
by Neil L. Rudenstine
Where the Grass Is Greener
Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research
by Jonathan Shaw
Caring for the Caregivers
What it's like to look after a loved one with dementia
by Lydialyle Gibson