Features
We’re Thinking About Darkness All Wrong
There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.
Homelessness Is a Crisis of Public Health
In our fragmented system, loss of housing leads to mental and physical deterioration. Some new initiatives aim to connect the remedies.
The Harvard Graduate and Early Vegetarian Benjamin Smith Lyman
Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
by Derek Bok
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
How to Make a Mammal
Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.