At the Law School, Barack Obama learned to pick his battles, make as few enemies as possible, and press for real-world change. Can that same strategy take him to the White House?

Al Gore was at Harvard during tumultuous times, which shaped the steady, considered politician he became. That’s why his former teacher thinks he should run.

Harvard graduates have a reputation for flying particularly high, but the alumni bulletin rarely provides a good story about getting burned. To fill the void, we’ve assembled the most egregious cases of Harvard Hubris in recent memory, and their attendant comeuppance.

While most people cringe at the ugliness of old industrial factories, the landscape architects at D.I.R.T. Studio envision healthy, historical green spaces.

Poet John Ashbery recalls the heady, artistically competitive, politically charged post-war years when he, Edward Gorey, and Frank O’Hara all converged on the Yard.

Being a legacy admission is the dark secret of many an undergraduate. But is the reputation of being undeserving itself undeserved?

Forget medicine, law, politics, and business. This pair of dissidents has forged a new career of on-camera mouthing off.

A Cambridge academic brat discovers her African American roots a stone’s throw from Harvard Square.

The lawyer-cum-author reveals the secrets of his brilliant second career—and mixes us a sublime martini.

What would it take for you to buy a piece of Harvard?

All about “Sex and the Ivy,” an X-rated blog by Lena X. Chen.

Our recent investigation of 2006’s announcements found that an astonishing one out of every six couplings memorialized by the paper involved a Harvard bride or groom—or, yes, both.

Once people found out he went to Harvard, he knew he could never be the good guy.