Long-form features

The Phenomenal Doug Ulman

This young bone cancer survivor Livestrong has turned Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong into one of the most visible and effective cancer foundations in the world.

A Serious Career Option

On her latest CD, Brooklynite Rebecca Pronsky ’02 develops a “noirish” country twang.

The Doctor of Prejudice

After a long career as a groundbreaking physician and an activist quietly battling discrimination, Gus White ’57 argues that unconscious bias is keeping many of us sick.

Tyranny Has A Witness

Meet the man behind Human Rights Watch: Kenneth Roth ’77, who has been leading the group for nearly two decades.

A Tree Evangelist Who Connects Heaven and Earth

Professor and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni brings her love of trees to the bimah.

The Brothers Moynihan

Two brothers. Two personalities. Two definitions of success. The lives of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan ’81 and Catholic missionary Patrick Moynihan ’87 show there’s more than one way to change the world.

Rabbinical Student Heads Up the Fight For Gay Marriage in New Jersey

Rabbinical student Steven Goldstein is the founder, chair and CEO of Garden State Equality, the primary advocacy group now pushing for marriage for gay men and lesbians in New Jersey.

It’s All About Love

Hip-hop music began as an expression of the hopes and fears of the inner-city poor. Then greed and violence corrupted it. It’s a story that Tricia Rose, one of the first scholars to study hip-hop, believes has much to teach us about our culture and how we treat one another.

I Will Be Heard!

For decades Catherine Wolf ’72 AM, ’74 PhD worked as an IBM scientist getting computers to understand better how humans think. Then she was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Now she must rely on computers to tell other people what’s inside her own head and heart.

Doing It the Hard (Right) Way

The Low Anthem updates a rich strain of Americana.