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

Teaching with technology, for a new generation

From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology

by Sophia Nguyen

Brief life of Lafayette, by Laura Auricchio

Brief life of an American champion: 1757-1834

by Laura Auricchio

Public Interest Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

A public interest movement redefines architecture.

by Stephanie Garlock

The progress of palliative medicine

The progress of palliative medicine

Academic publishing and scholarly communication: a status report

The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication

by Craig Lambert

Brief life of writer-reformer Edward Everett Hale, by Jeffrey Mifflin

Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909

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Violence against South Asian women and solutions

Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia

by Rohini Pande

Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century

Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state

by Lincoln Caplan

James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT

James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw