Features

How Women Are Changing the NBA

From coaching staffs to front offices, female leaders are bringing new strategies to men’s basketball.

by David L. Tannenwald

Mihir Desai explains the real consequences of the new tax law

Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law

by Mihir A. Desai

How Americans Turned Against Knowledge

Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Alain Locke as activist aesthete

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist

Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011

by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore

Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China

The hunt for rare plants in China  

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy

Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert

At Harvard Medical School, Some Training Happens in the Woods

Stuart Harris guides students in the practice of wilderness medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson