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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 Winner, 2024 Associated Collegiate Press Podcast of the Year | Winner, 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for Conversational P...
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...
Does Harvard Have an Academic Freedom Problem?
From The Harvard Crimson: some would say Harvard has an academic freedom problem. That superstar professors censor themselves for fear of blowback, and that the world’...
The Harvard Alumni Who Run Massachusetts
From The Harvard Crimson: Massachusetts governors Mitt Romney, Deval L. Patrick ’78, Charlie D. Baker ’79, and Maura T. Healey ’92 don’t share a party, vision, or even...
Chemistry Giant Charles Lieber Avoids Prison Time
This week on The Harvard Crimson’s Newstalk, Miles J. Herszenhorn ’25 and Managing Editor Brandon L. Kingdollar ’24 join host Frank Zhou ’26 to discuss the sentencing ...
The Unabomber
Winner, 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards for Narrative PodcastListen to The Unabomber: The Man, The Myth, and The Manifesto: https://...
Police Killing Spurs Protests at City Hall
This week on The Harvard Crimson's Newstalk, reporters Yusuf S. Mian '25 and Ryan H. Doan-Nguyen '25 join host Frank S. Zhou '26 to discuss activists' week-long picket...
A Harvard Acceptance Letter
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 interviews with Harvard's...