Features
The Gravity of Groups
Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond
by Max J. Krupnick
Plants on a Changing Planet
How long will the world’s forests impound carbon below ground?
by Jonathan Shaw
The Homelessness Public Health Crisis
Homelessness has surged in the United States, with devastating effects on the public health system.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Benjamin Smith Lyman
Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920
by Christine M.E. Guth
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
by Derek Bok
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
by Veronique Greenwood
Winthrop Bell
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
by Merilee Grindle
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
by Max J. Krupnick
How to Make a Mammal
Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.
by Jonathan Shaw