Features

Celebrating Integrity

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

In Flight

A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.

by Maciek Nabrdalik

Williamina Fleming

Brief life of a spectrographic pioneer: 1857-1911

by Alan Hirshfeld

“Feelings Ought to Be Investigated”

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Personal Information in the Digital Age

Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.

by Jonathan Shaw

Death Throes

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan

Educating Teachers

Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.

by Sophia Nguyen

Facing Harvard

When the College commissioned Copley

by Jane Kamensky

Global Health at Home

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

Alan Seeger

Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916

by Dick Friedman

Post-Regulatory School Reform

Making the case for charter schools and other choice options to boost educational performance

by Paul E. Peterson