While the Olympic Games are a unique and powerful symbol of an increasingly interconnected world, the hurdles faced by host cities reflect the pressing challenges that accompany globalizing forces like the Olympics.
The feature presents unfiltered quotes from my three conversations with three Harvard union leaders, who share the importance of recognizing Harvard employees and the potential that undergraduate students have to amplify these workers’ voices.
The impact of performative masculinity was at the forefront of controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic when hypermasculine leadership made mask-wearing a partisan issue.
Which candidates are polling high in the Democratic primary? Who is donating to the candidates? This feature explores both polling and campaign finance data for the 2021 New York City mayoral election.
Harvard’s expansion into Allston is but the most recent chapter in the history of a university that has slowly engulfed and reshaped the communities around it. As cities commit themselves to addressing longstanding inequalities, do elite universities do their part?
Though ketamine was originally used as a sedative and later well-known for being a party drug, recent research heralded its use as a therapeutic for suicidality.
“Everyone wants renewable energy,” Benner said to me. “But we feel there are better ways to do it than to experiment and take a chance on ruining something that’s good.”
COVID-19 represents the biggest shock to the American Dream since the Great Recession. Even Scarsdale, New York, the richest town on the East Coast, stands to lose if the “Zoomers” suffer permanent impediments to their development.
Massachusetts’ most contentious natural gas compressor station continues to draw scrutiny over alleged violations of environmental justice — from community groups, elected officials, and now the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which may have the authority to pull the plug on the project once and for all.
The most straightforward and momentous step we could take toward solving the problems of American democracy is to lower the voting age to 16, beginning with local elections. This would revolutionize our political culture in the United States, politically empowering future generations of Americans and elevating our civil discourse.
