Features
Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
Brief life of a transcendentalist out West
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
Emily Balskus deciphers the human microbiome.
Restoring justice
Exploring an alternative to crime and punishment
Sandra Susan Smith, profiled by Marina Bolotnikova
Sandra Susan Smith studies work and incarceration in an unequal, atomized America.
al-Hariri, a master storyteller
Brief life of a master storyteller
Journalist Chris Wallace, profiled by Craig Lambert
Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”
Humanities and democratic discourse belong together
Active citizens are humanists.
by Doris Sommer
Stephen Gray of Harvard Design School profiled by Jacob Sweet
Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.
by Jacob Sweet
Jeannie Suk Gersen of Harvard Law School, profiled by Lydialyle Gibson
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist