Lee Junseok, a South Korean politician, is seated at a desk in front of a microphone.

Provocative Politician

South Korea’s Lee Junseok tries to break old binaries.

by Nina Pasquini

Liv Redpath performing onstage

What You Can Say, Singing

Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory

by Nina Pasquini

Portrait of Thomas Wentworth Higginson with a mustache and side-parted hair.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Brief life of an activist for freedom: 1823-1911

by John Nelson

Crimson Campaign Consultants

Two Harvard alumni have helped bring advanced data analysis to political contests across the country.

by Jack R. Trapanick

An illustration envisioning a remade SAT test

Beyond the SAT

Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs

Richard Beck sitting indoors beside a potted plant, hands clasped, looking at the camera.

History in Progress

How the War on Terror reshaped American life

by Nina Pasquini

Fairfield Porter's “Self-Portrait in the Studio,” painted in 1948

Fairfield Porter

Brief life of an American realist artist and critic: 1907-1975

by Jane Borthwick

sperm whale and freediver

Animal (Code) Cracker

After listening to leviathans, an undergraduate comes to conservation.  

by Jonathan Shaw

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Portrait of Kimberly Dowdell sitting on steps

“The Ingenuity of an Architect”

Kimberly Dowdell influences her profession—and the built environment.

by Nell Porter-Brown

50 Marathons in 50 States: Scott Kline

Harvard Law School's Scott Kline ’88.