2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13701I review recent results for quasars and discuss how they are related to activity in galaxies. Topics included are studies of quasar host galaxies with HST; searches for quasars in the Hubble Deep Field; evolution of the quasar luminosity function; news highlights from astro-ph; and current observational problems and their relation to theoretical work.8 pages (LaTeX, paspconf.sty), invited review to appear in proceedings of IAU Sym. 194, "Activity in Galaxies and Related Phenomena" (1998 August 17-21, Byurakan, Armenia), ASP Conf. Series, ed. Y. Terzian, E. Khachikian, and D. WeedmanAstrophysicstext