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Interim President Garber’s Uneasy Relationship With Harvard Unions
When longtime Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 suddenly became interim president earlier this month, the powerful but largely invisible administrator was unfamiliar ...
Harvard Takes Aim at Sidechat Antisemitism
Sidechat, a popular social media platform on Harvard's campus, has come under scrutiny for an allegedly increasing amount of antisemitic posts and criticisms of insuff...
Inside Harvard’s Historic Leadership Crisis
National Winner, 2024 Associated Collegiate Press Podcast of the Year Harvard’s crisis didn’t end with Gay’s resignation.As the University faces a federal lawsuit and ...
BREAKING: HARVARD PRESIDENT RESIGNS
Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University's history. Gay’s resignation — just six mont...
BREAKING: Harvard President Survives Calls For Resignation
Harvard President Claudine Gay testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hoping to tell the nation how she was fighting antisemitism at Harva...
Harvard President to Testify on Antisemitism Before Congress
In the days since Hamas’ October 7 attack against Israel, Harvard has faced division on campus and national backlash over its response. Tomorrow, Harvard President Cla...
Inside Harvard-Yale 2023
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, guest host Yael S. Goldstein ’26 takes us inside the 2023 Harvard-Yale Game. We talk to the players, students, and alumni ...
Harvard Kennedy School Course ‘Walks the Razor’s Edge’
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporter Asher J. Montgomery ’26 joins host Frank S. Zhou ’26 to dive deep into a controversial course at the Harvard Kenn...
Sex Week at Harvard
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, Sex Week president Julia R. Bhuiyan ’25 joins host Frank S. Zhou ’26 to discuss Sex Week at Harvard, a weeklong series of ...
Harvard Undergrads Unionize Amid National Wave
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporter Cam E. Kettles '26 joins host Frank S. Zhou '26 to discuss Harvard's first primarily undergraduate union and its ...
Harvard President Claudine Gay's First 100 Days
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Miles J. Herszenhorn '25 and Claire Yuan '25 join host Frank S. Zhou '26 to discuss Harvard President Claudine G...
Protesters Demand Dismissal of Officer in Fatal Faisal Shooting
A note before our regular episode this week. In the days following Hamas’ attacks, the war in Israel and Gaza has reverberated across Harvard’s campus. Backlash agains...
Cambridge Candidates Under Fire for Racist, Transphobic Tweets
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Muskaan Arshad ’25 and Julian J. Giordano ’25 join host Frank S. Zhou ’26 to discuss the racist, transphobic twe...
Harvard Admissions’ New Interview Guidelines
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Michelle N. Amponsah ’26 and Emma H. Haidar ’26 join host Frank S. Zhou ’26 to discuss changes to admissions int...
Cambridge Teachers Remain Without Contract
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Sally E. Edwards '26 and Azusa M. Lippit '26 join Frank S. Zhou '26 to discuss the contract impasse between unio...
Candidates Contend for Cambridge Council
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Julian J. Giordano '25 and Samuel P. Goldston '26 join host Frank S. Zhou '26 to discuss the city of Cambridge's...
Affirmative Action Falls: Inside the Protests at Harvard and Washington D.C.
National Honorable Mention, 2024 Associated Collegiate Press Podcast of the Year | Winner, 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for Conve...
Harvard's Denaming Dilemma
From The Harvard Crimson: Harvard sophomore Ricky R. Razon IV ’25 recalls his grandmother living off a highway named after Jefferson Davis, the first and only presiden...