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After losing her Altadena home to wildfire, Lynn Sternberger ’07 reflects on loss, accountability, and what it means to rebuild a community.

“Time turns us all into conservationists,” the philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes observes. “If we want to save the things we cherish from time’s ravages, then we need to preserve them, conserve them.”

“Between the endowment tax and all the other policy changes … these institutions are going to have to cut something. It’s just too much money," economics professor Phillip Levine said.

Imagination is a fundamental tool for everyday life. Unsurprisingly, many kids harness it during athletic play, conjuring a fun teammate, a supportive coach or a worthy opponent, says Tracy Gleason.

In Kufre n’ Quay by playwright Mfoniso Udofia ’06, characters from various backgrounds must work to come closer together instead of further apart. Boston Arts Academy put on the show’s world premiere.

“Anyone who cares about… fairness, representation, or competitiveness in our democracy would think it’s terrible that the President is so open about it,” says Ismar Volic. “But it’s not illegal.”

Bad Bunny Syllabus co-founder Petra Rivera-Rideau was featured in Argentina’s major newspaper about “the Puerto Rican who turned reggaeton into a political manifesto and even a university lecture.”

Wellesley Centers for Women associate research scientist Kate Price’s book was included on The Washington Post's list of ten noteworthy books for July and August.

The real story from the NYC mayoral primary isn’t Mamdani’s victory, but voters’ response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy.