Since June 19, 2026, Harvard University Dining Services employees have been working without a contract. Their contracts with Harvard are negotiated through UNITE HERE Local 26 and set terms for wages, benefits, working conditions, and grievance procedures for HUDS staff. Represented by their union, HUDS workers are now considering striking if Harvard does not propose […]
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 […]
Tituba, one of the first people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, was not Black. Over the next three centuries, writers made her Black anyway. Tituba, an enslaved woman living in the house of Reverend Samuel Parris, is described as “Indian” in the 1962 court records. She was an Indigenous woman, and Puritans shaped her […]
I walk outside and feel the bite of the cold. The days are getting shorter, and I dig out my favorite jacket—brown wool, still hanging where I left it last March, a crumpled-up tissue in the pocket. I pull it on, and suddenly it’s my favorite time of year: fall. Cambridge in the last weeks […]
My father is a mama’s boy; anyone who knows him can see it. Most nights, if you walk past his office, you’ll hear him and my grandmother in deep conversation. Each day he calls, and, without fail, she picks up, and they talk and talk. Even when her hearing started to go, they’d talk, though […]
Let me ask you a question: What do you associate with Halloween? You probably said candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, horror films, fake blood, or pumpkins. And I am sure some of you are looking for costumes—the uber-prepared may already have a Pinterest board ready. Naturally, today’s young adults turn to social media for ideas. But imagine […]
When people hear the name Harvard, they think of prestige, education, talent, or drive. While these are certainly true of some of the school’s population, others recognize that Harvard’s real best quality is its wide range of bars. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible for an undergraduate student to take proper advantage of these alcoholic lounges. […]
Meet the veterans of the theater department in the world of “macbitches.” Lexi, a foul-mouthed senior played by Gemma Dean ’27, spits conversational daggers every time she speaks. This confrontational community-theater nepo baby specializes in destroying self-confidence in the name of honesty. Tahraji Milsap ’27 plays Cam, a witty junior who uses comedy as a […]
Maybe your quirky aunt tells you stories of destiny, or maybe you stumbled upon one of those “this video was meant to find you” reels with face-down cards on the thumbnail. But have you ever learned the art of predicting the future? In a tarot deck, each card shows a scene with a figure at […]