Democrats lost the 2024 election because they paid too much attention to positive macroeconomic trendlines and not enough to Americans’ economic reality, according to economist Larry Summers. “In too many ways, Democrats have lost sight of the common man and woman in favor of the attitudes and philosophies of the faculty common room,” said Summers […]
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President-elect Donald Trump is moving swiftly to announce Cabinet and other appointments for a second term in office, which many observers expect to pick up where he left off in January 2021 on major policy issues like immigration, trade, and foreign relations. What will be different, say veteran Washington journalists Susan Glasser ’90, and Peter
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Supporting student engagement in live theater as it fosters lasting relationships between the two is the idea behind the American Repertory Theater’s Lavine Learning Lab. The new student initiative will, among other exercises, bring participating public high school students to an evening performance of every show in the company’s season. Rooted in A.R.T.’s core values
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A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. According to the USDA’s most recent statistics, Americans consume 41.7 pounds of cheese a year. That’s up almost 10 pounds since 2000, and more than double the consumption in 1975. Walter C. Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
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A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. According to the USDA’s most recent statistics, Americans consume 41.7 pounds of cheese a year. That’s up almost 10 pounds since 2000, and more than double the consumption in 1975. Walter C. Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
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Philip Deloria and Joseph P. Gone had family members who were taken from their homes and placed in government- or church-run boarding schools as part of a decadeslong federal initiative aimed at forcibly assimilating thousands of Native children. Late last month, President Biden made a historic apology to Native Americans on behalf of the U.S.
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The deeply divided U.S. is like “two people locked in a wrestling match on the edge of a cliff,” said Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at a campus event Monday evening. “The implicit working theory of our administration has been if we could just deliver on the basics,” such as safe roads and bridges and
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At times this fall, Bohdan Tokarskyi has felt split between two contrasting worlds. On one side is Cambridge, where he works as a new assistant professor of Ukrainian literature and culture in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. On the other are the sirens, bomb shelters, blackouts, and flattened universities that flash across his phone
12 centuries of Ukrainian literature in 12 weeks? Read More »
Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad — from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain cancers. In order to study these mutations, scientists need to introduce them directly into human cells. But changing genetic instructions inside cells is complex. The human genome comprises 3 billion base pairs of DNA divided across
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Mammals, including humans, stand out with their distinctively upright posture, a trait that fueled their evolutionary success. Yet the earliest known ancestors of modern mammals more closely resembled reptiles, with limbs stuck out to their sides in a sprawled posture. The shift from a sprawled stance like that of lizards to the upright posture of
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