Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert

Stuart Harris and wilderness medicine at Harvard

Stuart Harris and the austere practice of wilderness physicians

by Lydialyle Gibson

Market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

by Charles T. Clot...

Brief life of Guy Davenport, a polymathic stylist

Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005

by Eric Allen Been

Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics

The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms

by Jonathan Shaw

The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”

America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”

by Lincoln Caplan

Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled

Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.

by Sophia Nguyen

Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes

On Earth, microbes run the show.

by Jonathan Shaw