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Excerpts
Works by Harvard-affiliated authors
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Nation & WorldConstitution was made to be amended. So what’s stopping us?
Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks
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Nation & WorldSCOTUS might surprise you
Sarah Isgur argues growing distrust of justices says more about our tribalism than any change in way judiciary works
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Arts & Culture‘She took those kids and left before he got home from work.’
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir
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Arts & CultureWays to keep talking — and maybe find way forward — amid riven times
Julia Minson’s new book says starting point involves signaling goodwill, respect, highlighting shared interests
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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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Girl with the golden arm
In this excerpt from Gish Jen’s satiric new novel, a star pitcher struggles against the police state in a riven, dystopian America.
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How America went astray
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger
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Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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One L, only harder
The following is excerpted from Haben Girma’s memoir “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.”
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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.
