Social Sciences
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Historian Alexander Keyssar on why the unpopular institution has prevailed
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Much Bigger Than the Police
A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk
To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
by Bennett McIntosh
At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America
Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
by Matteo Wong
The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout
How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions
by Matteo Wong
Ending an Epidemic
The when and how of vaccines
by Jonathan Shaw
The Extinction of the Press?
If the press is essential to democracy, what can be done to save news organizations?
by Erin O'Donnell
Melissa Dell
“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova