An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment. 

by Nina Pasquini

Climate-Change Advocacy Intensifies

FAS votes for divestment, and perhaps a contending Overseers’ slate

by John S. Rosenberg

One Hundred Years of Educating Educators

At its centennial, the Harvard Graduate School of Education celebrates and looks ahead. 

by Jacob Sweet

The University in “Contentious Times”

President Bacow on the challenges to higher education in a polarized era

by John S. Rosenberg

"The Love of a Ghost for a Ghost"

A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death

by Lydialyle Gibson

Charles Lieber Arrested

Friedman University Professor charged with lying about research ties to China

by Jonathan Shaw

A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law

A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.” 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Negatively Curved Crystals

A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.

by Drew Pendergrass

New England’s Forest Primeval

Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.

by Jonathan Shaw

Election Slates and Divestment Developments

The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.

by John S. Rosenberg

An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard

The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.

by Bennett McIntosh