Features

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

Atul Gawande: Surgeon, Health-Policy Scholar, and Writer

Atul Gawande never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises

Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”

by David A. Moss

Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

A brief profile of an enterprising French artist

by Laura Auricchio

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

by Jonathan Shaw

Cuba

Raúl Castro is changing Cuba. Will the United States respond?

Theobald Smith

A brief profile of the pioneering comparative pathologist

by Steven M. Niemi

Sexual apartheid in medieval England

Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.

by Jonathan Shaw

Lessons from an Unexpected Life

One patient’s struggle with chronic illness highlights the complexities of modern medicine and the healthcare challenge.

Vistas of Perfection

A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond

by Adam Kirsch

April Fool Every Day

Comedian Andy Borowitz ’80 has moved from Hollywood success to a multifaceted life as a humorist in New York.

by Craig Lambert