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Radhika Jones on Kate Middleton, King Charles, and the Royal Family’s Hard Year

VF’s editor in chief reflects on the Windsors’ challenges, and shares her insights on that Taylor Swift class at Harvard.
Levin Report

Hedge Fund Billionaire Who Recently Donated $300 Million to Harvard Says It’s Now Full of “Whiny Snowflakes,” and His Checkbook Is Closed

Ken Griffin is “not interested in supporting the institution” at this time.
Things That Make You Go Hmmm

Bill Ackman Claims Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Been Against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—And Yes, He Was Serious

“I think Dr. King would be very opposed to this sort of ideology.”
Academia

Wife of Billionaire Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Ouster Apologizes for Plagiarism in Dissertation

Neri Oxman wrote on X, “I regret and apologize for these errors.”
Academia

Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns—Seemingly Over Plagiarism, Not Jewish Genocide Hearing

The university board had previously backed her following a disastrous hearing on Capitol Hill.
FLACK FILES

“Kayleigh Is at War.” How Donald Trump’s Fifth * (and Final?) Spox Went From Florida Farmland to Prime-Time Fibber

However long Kayleigh McEnany has left as the official MAGAphone of the Trump White House, she’s left her mark.
Coronavirus

COVID-19 Conspiracies Are Turobocharged Through Conservative Media

Fox News hosts, right-wing radio hosts, and social media users have contributed to an “infodemic” plaguing society alongside the spread of the coronavirus.
Style

“Am I Really a Monster?” The Six-Fry Harvard Professor Speaks

Harvard’s Dr. Eric Rimm has seen all your tweets, and he’s not backing down.
In Conversation

Memoirist Casey Gerald Takes Aim at the American Dream

In his debut, There Will Be No Miracles Here, the onetime TED speaker shares the lessons from a life on both sides of the country’s racial and class divides.
The Kush

Natalie Portman Calls Her Former Friend Jared Kushner “a Super-Villain”

The unlikely duo were “friendly” while students at Harvard.
From the Magazine

Yara Shahidi on Being a Role Model, Attending Harvard, and Continuing Her Activism

The Grown-ish star is just getting started as she finds a way to balance her first year of college on screen and off.
Socialites

Malia Obama’s Rumored Boyfriend Has Deleted His Social-Media Presence

First Meghan Markle, now Rory Farquharson.
He Went to Harvard

Has Jared Kushner Ever Filled Out a Form He Hasn’t Messed Up?

Probably not?
class of 2021

Malia Obama Has Already Mastered the Art of “No Comment”

Don’t look for her quote in the Harvard Crimson any time soon.
Star Crossed Lovers

Jennifer Lawrence’s Boyfriend, Darren Aronofsky, Doesn’t Understand Her Housewives Obsession

They make it work somehow!
Inside The Hive

Exclusive: The Winklevoss Twins Are So Over Facebook

In the latest episode of Inside the Hive, the famous twins explain the surreality of seeing themselves depicted by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and their initial ambitions for The Facebook. They also show a remarkable sangfroid about how the whole mess with Zuck went down, and explain how they think they can beat it all with Gemini, their cyptocurrency exchange.
Go Crimson

Yara Shahidi Will Join Malia Obama at Harvard in 2018

She chose the Ivy League after being accepted to all four schools to which she applied.
Fraught Beginnings

How Harvard Business School Helped Turn Steve Bannon into a Monster

It takes a graduate degree from the nation’s top business school to deconstruct the administrative state.
Freshman-In-Chief

Malia Obama Chooses Harvard for Undergrad, but Only After a Gap Year

She‘s a driven, intelligent and self-possessed young woman — but being the president’s daughter sure can’t hurt.
Higher Education

Portraits of Black Harvard Law School Professors Defaced After Protest Against Racism

University police are investigating what may be a hate crime.