Featured series 
Excerpts
Works by Harvard-affiliated authors
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HealthWant to feel more loved? Forget changing yourself. Change conversation.
Two psychologists offer science-backed framework on how to improve relationships
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Nation & WorldHow to end polarization? Schools may be best hope.
Journalist blends history, on-the-ground reporting, finds answer may be civic education that goes far beyond 3 branches of government
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Arts & CultureWhat karaoke taught Elizabeth McCracken about fiction
In new guide to writing, novelist details value of being able to live with failure — and why she no longer sings in public
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Work & EconomyHow Barbie became the ‘It Girl’
Innovative marketing, ad strategy helps fashion doll rocket through Mad Men years and beyond, with tip of hat to Gillette
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Arts & CultureTracy K. Smith thinks poetry could help bring us together, if we let it
Two-time U.S. poet laureate recalls her national project to encourage ‘notion that your life must be as important to you as mine is to me’
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Arts & CultureHorrific massacre that fueled drive to end slave trade
New history traces nightmare voyage, high-profile British trial over insurance claim to collect for jettisoned ‘cargo’
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Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
