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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

Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics

On activism, litigation, and social change in America

by Michael J. Klarman

Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin

Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956

by Mark J. Plotkin

The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided

How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart

by Alice Park

Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard Medical School studies placebos

An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.

by Cara Feinberg

Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo

Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973

by Lynn Liccardo

Fashion professionals from Harvard

Designers, models, and merchants tint the fashion industry Crimson.

by Craig Lambert

Michael McElroy and Xi Lu on Natural Gas and Fracking

Natural gas, the economy, and America’s energy prospects

by Xi Lu

Contemporary art at Harvard Business School, thanks to Gerald W. Schwartz

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

by John S. Rosenberg

Profile of HSPH professor Theresa Betancourt's research on neglected children

Theresa Betancourt studies the world’s most neglected and traumatized youths.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The rise in the use of C-sections in recent decades

The rise in the use of C-sections