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Letters: Readers respond to a piece about Harvard’s Avi Loeb and his explorations into extraterrestrial life

Baby boomers are entering older age amid a historic affordable-housing shortage and widening inequality. A new study warns many won't be able to access the kind of housing or caregiving they need.

Henry Alfred Kissinger was a German-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazi regime with his family as a teen in 1938, eventually settling in New York City. He went on to serve as national security adviser, secretary of state or as a special adviser in five US presidential administrations, becoming…

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

In his recently published book, Loeb delves into the journey that led him to view the peculiar characteristics of 'Oumuamua as proof of extraterrestrial life.

MSU's first portal offer goes out to Harvard DL transfer Thor Griffith

My wife Alison Somin, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, outlines the problem.

To understand how bodies work, medical researchers and scientists have created mini models of organs, called organoids. This field of scientific research has had profound impacts on biological discovery and pharmaceutical development.