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Nation & World
What is Putin’s next move?
Russian policy expert says death of opposition leader, Ukraine victories, political turmoil in U.S. bolstering leader’s confidence
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Campus & Community
‘Human dignity front and center’
Dialogues event offers tools for engaging in respectful debate
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Arts & Culture
Taylor Swift, the Wordsworth of our time?
New English course studies pop star’s lyrics alongside classic literature
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Science & Tech
Harvard physicists create a new phase of matter
First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor
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Science & Tech
Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
Study puts fermentation, not fire, as pivot point behind our ancestors’ increasing cranial capacity
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Nation & World
‘What we really need is just to sit together and face each other’
Israeli, Palestinian philosophers exchange tales of personal loss, find points of contention, agreement over war
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Nation & World
Jared Kushner speaks from Middle East experience in Kennedy School forum
Ex-Trump adviser criticizes Biden’s pre-Oct. 7 engagement in the region, defends Israel’s actions in Gaza
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Nation & World
Reading tea leaves with Steve Kornacki
NBC, MSNBC analyst sees Democratic potential, but lots of slack, uncertainty ahead for both parties
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Health
Looking to rewind the aging clock
Harvard researchers create model that better measures biological age, distinguishes between harmful and adaptive changes during life
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Campus & Community
Overseer, HAA elected director elections ballot set
Candidates as they will appear on the ballot
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Nation & World
Looking at causes, measuring effects of Israel-Hamas war
Experts examine shifts in geopolitics, global economy resulting from conflict
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Health
Potential new weapon in battle against superbugs
Harvard team’s synthetic molecule highly effective against drug-resistant bacteria
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Arts & Culture
Can you embrace deep joy amid deep loss?
Leslie Jamison traces how first-time motherhood, crumbling of marriage left her with new, different life
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Nation & World
Pushing back against China — without igniting war
GOP, Democratic leaders of House panel detail hot issues with ascendant superpower: Taiwan independence, intellectual property theft, oppression of Uyghurs
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Campus & Community
Class of 1999 elects Baratunde Thurston as chief marshal of alumni
Writer, TV host, comedian, commentator to join in 125-year-old tradition
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Health
What do we do with our loneliness?
‘Harvard Thinking’ looks at health crisis with experts Jeremy Nobel and Milena Batanova
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Health
A win for science, and patients, against brain injury ‘nihilism’
Hope for progress even after a 450-foot fall, trial shows, defying pessimism that hurts research and families
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Nation & World
Are top-ranked colleges really the best? Depends. At what?
Sociologist urges ratings focused on real-life outcomes, particularly in those from underrepresented groups
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Arts & Culture
Many splendored? Sometimes, but it’s always intriguing
Staff, faculty offer Valentine’s tips for books that cover what we talk about when we talk about love
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Health
We’re social beings. So are microbes.
When we pick up our neighbors’ bugs, we get the good as well as the bad and the ugly
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Arts & Culture
Bringing their whole selves to work
242 artists (with day gigs at Harvard) display in range of media at annual show
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Arts & Culture
Why are we unhappy?
Zen Buddhist teacher says it’s because we’re always struggling either to possess or avoid people, things, or situations
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Campus & Community
Need for moral revolution
Social scientist, former Biden official Alondra Nelson says work of new Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity can help shape policy, progress
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Nation & World
Helping scholars upended by Russia-Ukraine war
Davis Center’s Scholars Without Borders provides networking support, professional development to exiles, those living under siege
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Nation & World
Who cares what Taylor Swift thinks?
Lots of people! But that doesn’t mean she can sway an election.
