Featured series 
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Nation & World‘I wanted to make a difference in America’
Robert Putnam’s ‘Bowling Alone’ sounded an alarm we still haven’t answered
Part of the Experience series
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Nation & WorldLesson about election night for media? Winner should be American democracy.
News outlets taking greater care in close, fraught contest, experts say, but moving away from horse-race coverage is healthy idea anyway
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Nation & WorldIGs oversee most federal agencies. Why not the Supreme Court?
Inspector general would boost accountability, trust in federal judiciary, argues Glenn Fine in talk promoting new book, ‘Watchdogs’
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Campus & CommunityTime for ‘emergence of a new and better democracy’
Civil rights attorney and Howard professor Sherrilyn Ifill details need for national reckoning, greater civic involvement
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Arts & CultureArt in motion
Stroboscopic technique uses darkness to shine light on the science of movement
Part of the Photography series 
Gallery
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HealthHow to fight depression? Faster.
Hope flags when medications fail, isolating and endangering patients. Backed by a major grant, 2 Harvard scientists are focused on reducing the distance between diagnosis and recovery.
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HealthPlastics are everywhere, even in our bodies
We ingest equivalent of credit card per week — how worried should we be? In ‘Harvard Thinking,’ experts discuss how to minimize exposure, possible solutions.
Podcast
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Putting a face on the importance of voting
‘Vote!’ exhibition honors those who fought for civil rights
