Features

Star-filled night sky with the Milky Way arching over a rocky silhouette.

We’re Thinking About Darkness All Wrong

There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.

by Matt Crossman

Along a city street, mural on a concrete wall shows two men shaking hands, with a large pair of watchful eyes in the background.

To the Rescue

Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Illustration of book like a sinking ship, emblematic of problems in the humanities

Humanists All

What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

by James Engell

Arthur Brooks stands behind a chair in his office, smiling

The Happiness Revolutionary

Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.

by Nancy Walecki

Allison Feaster wearing a green Celtics shirt in front of team championship banners

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson

George Reisner, 1924

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

Official portrait of Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

esperanza spalding, wearing a white jumpsuit with a "Life Force" logo, stands next to an upright bass

esperanza spalding and “What if . . .” Music

The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph of Phil Baczewki, a long COVID patient

The Causes of Long COVID

Trying to understand infections’ persistent effects—and to develop cures

by Jonathan Shaw