Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Speaking Pheromone

How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson

by Richard Rhodes

The State of the Pandemic

Lessons learned from the continuing confrontation with the coronavirus

by Jonathan Shaw

The Poco of Pocos

Brief life of a Harvard “character”

by Hanna Rose Shell

A Yukon Life

Choosing a path far from Harvard

by Eric Hegsted

Forum: Is Harvard Complacent?

Considering fundamental change in the wake of the pandemic

by Brian Rosenberg

Can disinformation be stopped?

Scholars’ perspectives on a pervasive new threat

by Jacob Sweet

Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite

Brief life of a transcendentalist out West

by John Buehrens

Probing the Microbial World Within Us

Emily Balskus deciphers the human microbiome.

by Jonathan Shaw

Restoring justice

Exploring an alternative to crime and punishment

by Lydialyle Gibson

Sandra Susan Smith, profiled by Marina Bolotnikova

Sandra Susan Smith studies work and incarceration in an unequal, atomized America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova