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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

Profile of Andrew Sullivan, blogger supreme

Andrew Sullivan’s views are predictable in only one way: always stimulating.

by Jesse Kornbluth

Profile of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn

Ubiquitous on film and TV, Wallace Shawn writes plays that pack the house—with 20.

by Craig Lambert

Brief life of female Vietnamese revolutionary Bao Luong

Brief life of a Vietnamese revolutionary: 1909-1976

by Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

by Victor McElheny

Yale expert Fred Shapiro's pick of choice Harvard quotations

An expert's pick of choice Harvard words

by Fred Shapiro

Matthew Nock studies suicide and self-injury

Understanding suicide and self-injury

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard scholars study the Amazon rainforest under global climate change

Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Harvard CIA agent who helped install the shah of Iran

Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000

by Gwen Kinkead

Daniel Lieberman on the Evolution of the Human Head

How the shape of our skulls evolved, and what that reveals about us

by Jonathan Shaw

Excerpt from "Reading Obama," by James T. Kloppenberg

Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance

by James T. Kloppenberg