Features

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General

The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court

by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard and the making of Big Football

Boosting the game, and The Game

by Dick Friedman

Unequal Distribution of Incomes

The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth

by Richard B. Freeman

Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries

Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP

Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929

by Geoffrey D. Austrian

Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective

Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective

by John S. Rosenberg

Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer

Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.

by Jonathan Shaw

Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympics

Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009

by Eileen McNamara

“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life

James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”

by Lincoln Caplan