Features

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

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

"Poetry, Voiced": diving into the sound archive of the Woodberry Poetry Room

In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.

by Sophia Nguyen

Brief life of Blanche Ames, intrepid botanical illustrator, by Laura J. Snyder

Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878-1969

by Laura J. Snyder

Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness

Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.

by Courtney Humphries

Rethinking liberal arts Yale-NUS, Minerva

Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard and the working class

The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it

by Richard D. Kahl...