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View Article“Fake News” and the Post-Trump Media
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View ArticlePresident Obama Urges Criminal-Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review
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View ArticleVisitors, Not Viewers
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View ArticleReaders Reflect: How Should Harvard Respond to the Immigration Ban?
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View ArticleHenry Knowles Beecher
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View ArticleA Workable Democracy
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View ArticleReel Revolution
Documentarian Kent Garrett reflects on how “Black Journal” broke down barriersA television documentarian looks back.Sophia NguyenMarch-April 2017 reel-revolutionFor an anxious, endless moment in 1969,...
View ArticleDesire and Design
Open BookA new biography of Louis KahnMarch-April 2017 open-bookWendy Lesser’73, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and a critic of unusual scope (witness recent books on reading and on...
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Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.Composer Robert Kyr embraces peace, love, and nature.Lydialyle GibsonMarch-April 2017 harmonic-progressionThere are so many places to begin with...
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The future of work and the sharing economyShannon Liss-Riordan defends the “whole social fabric of employment.”Marina N. BolotnikovaMarch-April 2017 labor-litigatorIn a Hartford, Connecticut, courtroom...
View ArticleHarvard Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
Harvard Overseer and HAA Director Candidates for 2017March-April 2017 overseer-and-director-candidatesThis spring, alumni can vote for five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the...
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Harvard honors clubs and SIGsMarch-April 2017 haa-clubs-and-sigs-awardsThese honors, awarded at the HAA board of directors’ winter meeting in February, celebrate both alumni and groups that have...
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