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Journalists Heather Long (Wellesley ’04) and Sergio Peçanha’s editorial series on urban revival won the Loeb Award for Commentary. Their entry, "How to Revive America's Comatose Downtowns," explored how cities can make the best of a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild, revive and repopulate post-Covid.

“Dongducheon was the storied camp town in Korea,” said Katharine H.S. Moon, an emerita professor at Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, who wrote “Sex Among Allies,” a book on the country’s camp towns. “It was ‘shantytown Las Vegas.’ ”

Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites of all sexual stripes... Novelist Nella Larsen was known to socialize with women who love women, said Octavio Gonzalez, assistant professor of English at Wellesley College. “If she wasn't purely queer, she was, I think, very open sexually or romantically to both men and women.”

English professor Kathryn Lynch on how single-sex colleges provide women students extraordinary opportunities to spread their intellectual wings and fly in ways they just can’t in co-ed environments.

What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong? Professor and Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman says the collective freakout about kids and social media has reached a tipping point.

Takeaways from new book by Hillary Clinton (Wellesley ’69), ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’. In her latest memoir, Clinton takes on student protests, foreign policy and even clown school.

Chris Hayes of MSNBC speaks with environmental studies professor Jay Turner about the progress and legacy of one of President Biden’s signature pieces of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Hillary Clinton (Wellesley ’69) takes stock of life’s wins and losses in a memoir inspired by a Joni Mitchell lyric.

Professor and Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman on how proposed age bans and other limits on Instagram and TikTok use could harm some kids’ mental health.