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Your Glasses Shouldn’t Be Able to Dox Me
Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly tha...
No Ticket to Ride
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flash...
The Fall Girls
President Donald Trump’s relationship with women is contentious at best. With a history of inflammatory comments and sexual assault allegations, he is far from a model feminist. Yet his second term fe...
One Day at a Time
When we think of clashes between state and federal power, we tend to think of dramatic confrontations from our Advanced Placement US History textbooks—like President Dwight Eisenhower sending federal...
Death by a Thousand Pumps
Before the first Americans carved out rectangular borders and called it “the Southwest,” before the Diné established their tribal homeland between the four sacred mountains, the area was water and imm...
Class Action
In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education...
Boys Don’t Read: Male Reading Habits and the Educational Gender Gap
In 1976, a mere 50 years ago, men earned the majority of undergraduate degrees, the majority of master’s degrees, and over 75 percent of all doctoral degrees across the United States. By 1990, these n...
Rhode Island’s Clemency Process is a Model – Of What Not To Do
In the wake of a number of recent controversial pardons issued by President Trump, some have begun to argue that perhaps the Constitution should be amended to restrict the president’s authority. Intro...
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PhotosEffigies, Cross-Dressing, and Flames: El Año Viejo in Quito, Ecuador
It is impossible to be bored on Año Viejo (New Year’s Eve) in Ecuador’s capital city. The country blends rich traditions typical of many Latin American countries — like eating las doce uvas de la suer...
Enshrined Conflict: The Paradox of the Yasukuni Shrine
The 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Trials, carried out by the Allied powers during postwar occupation, marked one of the first attempts to reckon with the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during the S...
No Path Across
Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety vessels and often bought and traded by armed gangs, thousands of migrants...
Stateless Neighbors
A blue passport can get you far. The leatherbound booklet denotes association with the ‘New World’ and grants access to an unprecedentedly high degree of global mobility and embassy protection — unles...
Cutting the Line
In February 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard noticed something unusual in the Taiwan Strait. A Togolese-flagged cargo ship, the Hong Tai 58, had slowed near a submarine cable route connecting Taiwan to the...
The People’s Strongman
Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not Gh...
Culture
Are You Smart?
What do you think of when you imagine the act of thought? Western culture’s quintessential image of intelligence—Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker—depicts one man alone with his thoughts. A more a...
Bargaining Chips: Rethinking Labor Solidarity in the Age of Data Centers
Computers—and therefore, the world— run on chips. The production of said chips is limited to just a few countries (primarily because of the immense fixed costs and supply chain clusters), namely South...
Bread, Circuses, and Sitting Ringside
Last June, the United States Army held a military demonstration whose scale and extravagance were unparalleled for a country at peacetime. Columns of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, attack helicop...
Out of Office: The Need for Worker-Centered AI
Tech executives have spent the last two years making sweeping claims about what AI will mean for human labor. In a December 2025 study by the Harvard Business Review, 90 percent of executives surveyed...
