Indy Sportsbook: Cheaters n’ Chiefs
The Independent’s predictions for Super Bowl LIX.
All right, this better be the last one. Because surely the Kansas City Chiefs will not be in the Super Bowl four years in a row. Right? This Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles compete for Super Bowl LIX. The Chiefs are the defending champions and have won the past two years. They […]
Ten Things to Do Rather Than Watch the Eagles-Chiefs Game
A compilation of better ways to spend your Super Bowl Sunday.
Despite the Chiefs defeating the Bills and the Eagles storming past the Commanders, our eyes are anywhere but Sunday. Super Bowl LIX will be a quarterback rematch between the back-to-back Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes and the newly reinforced Jalen Hurts. Football fans face a tough choice: sing along to the “illustrious” lyricism of “Fly, […]
De Croo Addresses JFK Jr. Forum
The outgoing prime minister of Belgium gives his take on European-American relations during Trump’s second term.
On Jan. 31, outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo delivered a speech at the Harvard Institute of Politics on the future of the European economy and international security. The talk was one of two flagship events hosted as part of the student-organized European Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School. De Croo, who has served […]
Le’olam al tishkach, Le’olam lo
Reflections on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Last Tuesday, Jan. 27, marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The United Nations proclaimed Jan. 27 as the International Holocaust Memorial Day in 2005 to mark Auschwitz’s liberation in 1945, five years after its creation. From the camp’s inception until its liberation by the Red Army, German Nazis murdered […]
POV: You Still Can’t Access TikTok
Harvard’s Chief Technology Officer and most infamous hacker on data privacy in the wake of the looming TikTok ban.
On Jan. 19, phones around the United States were thrown across rooms and hit against tables as TikTok users were completely denied access to the popular short-form video content app. Two days earlier, the United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ban on the app’s use within our national borders due to data privacy concerns. […]
Trump’s Revised School of Thought
Using statutory and executive authority, Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion takes its opening blow on the academic left.
Two Januaries ago, on the top floor of a Chicago skyscraper, I fiddled with the gold, engraved buttons of my cardigan as my Harvard interviewer and I swapped stories about Harvard’s craziest classes and Chicago’s hidden gems. In a pause in conversation, she jumped at the opportunity to ask what I was most excited to […]
Still the Hardest Summer You’ll Ever Love
Service isn’t easy. That’s what makes it great.
Three summers spent in the Cambridge sun, chasing kids on the playground, teaching chemistry, running through sprinklers, peering into museum cases, dancing with parents, serving food, sitting quietly, directing loudly. Three summers spent working at the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Summer Urban Program. The best three summers of my life. *** It’s a classic […]
Queue the Cameras: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Sports Media
A look at how a lack of coverage and stereotypical portrayals of female athletes perpetuates sexism in sports.
On Jan. 14 and 21, four Boston-area collegiate women’s ice hockey teams competed in their biggest tournament of the season: the Beanpot. Bringing together students from Boston University, Boston College, Harvard, and Northeastern, this renowned athletic event has been occurring annually since 1952. However, while the Men’s Beanpot around two weeks later is accompanied by […]
Thoughts from New Quincy: The Apathy Industry
Examining the rise of desensitization in modern culture.
As I sat on my flight back to school last weekend, I found myself immersed in a spectacle of violence and eroticism radiating from the screens around me. A man two rows ahead of me was engrossed in a brutal shootout, while another nearby watched two men fight to the death with their bare knuckles. […]
Chocolat Chaud, Pas Planète Chaude: Environmentalism the Parisian Way
A winter in Paris has shown me how the French embrace sustainability unlike America’s convenience culture.
From December through February, the first thing I did when I got home from middle school was whip up a big pot of hot chocolate to thaw myself after braving the cold of Midwestern winters. Save for an uncharacteristic cold spell the first week I was here, Paris has thankfully proven milder than Cleveland, Ohio, […]
TikTok or TikToxic: Scrolling Ourselves Sick
Why TikTok’s temporary departure should become permanent.
It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night. I have a 10:30 a.m. class on Wednesday, and I have just finished most of my readings for tomorrow’s classes. Satisfied with this work, I decide it’s time to hit the hay. I brush my teeth, put my retainer in, and crawl into bed. I put my blue […]
News and Views: We Want Your Voice
This budding column brings your voice to topical news.
Joan Didion begins her 1979 book The White Album with a striking assertion: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In journalism, op-eds—short for “opposite the editorial page”—are where these stories take shape. Such narratives aren’t neutral reports on events but a fusion of arguments, perspectives, and deeply felt convictions. The most salient narratives […]
Hamm Sandwich
Hasty Pudding Theatricals honors actor Jon Hamm with their 2025 Man of the Year award.
You might be surprised by the abundant similarities between Jon Hamm and a pound of deli ham, but according to Bernardo Sequeira ’26, they do not share one thing: an Oscar win. On Friday, Jan. 31, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) honored actor Jon Hamm with their prestigious Man of the Year award. During the […]
“Foreigners Everywhere:” A Weekend at the Venice Biennale
Rotting fruit, chalkboard walls, and a heavily beaded punching bag.
Walls of glass beads, each colored strand hugging the next as they hang from the ceiling. A pile of rotting fruit on a wooden desk, connected by long wires to speakers emanating a low and melodic hum. In a room that’s all chalkboard, names link in a never-ending tree stretching from floor to ceiling. A […]
A Night of Enchantment with Cendrillon
Harvard College Opera brings a Cinderella story to the Agassiz Theater stage.
As the first week of classes concluded, many Harvard students made their way to the Agassiz Theater to experience the magic of a night at the opera. The original “Cendrillon,” a Cinderella story and French opera, was composed by Jules Massenet from 1894-1896 before its premiere in the National Opera-Comique in Paris in 1899, with […]