Between rushing from midterm office hours to an evening club meeting, I walk down JFK Street for a quick sweet treat from Ten One or Playa Bowls. Yet behind the minimalist packaging and pastel Instagram marketing lies a jarring paradox: the digital hype machine demands cheap quantities of global staples such as açaí and ube, […]
The red brick walkways in Harvard Square have always been uneven. They catch the toes of my sneakers the same way they did ten years ago. The T station still smells like stale peanuts and damp concrete. Now, though, slick glass facades and minimalist pastry shops have slid into the spaces where distinctly musty bookstores […]
On Sept. 18, President Donald Trump asked the National Institutes of Health to cut Harvard University’s research funding. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, refused. He defended his agency’s current grantmaking process, driven by standard scientific peer review. Trump then asked his Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, to draft an […]
