Inside the Trump Administration’s Attack on Smith College and Title IX
The DOE is investigating Smith College for admitting transgender women, but the probe fits a broader conservative Republican pattern.
Higher Education
admin Janet Mills Should Unsuspend Her U.S. Senate Campaign
Democrats should unite behind Graham Platner if Maine’s Democratic voters pick him over Janet Mills, but voters should make that…
Could New Orleans Be the Model for Fixing Public Schools?
A new documentary by the author of Reinventing Government shows how one of the nation’s worst school districts became the…
Hondurasgate Looks Worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined
Hondurasgate is far more than Trump's pardon of cocaine trafficker and former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
Get Ready for the AI Crash
Overinvestment and risky financial engineering have made an AI crash more likely. Congress should take steps now to soften the…
How to Save Capitalism
Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer and scholar Eric Beinhocker advocate "market humanism" as a framework for reforming capitalism.
Panetta: Iran War a ‘Terrible Mistake’ and Hegseth Is a ‘Disaster’
Leon Panetta says Trump and Hegseth's Iran war has boxed America into crisis and exposed the collapse of leadership at…
Higher Ed’s Affordability Problem Isn’t Just the Price
New survey data shows confusing financial aid offers are fueling backlash over college costs and higher education affordability.
The Higher Education Accreditation Wars Are Heating Up
As the Education Department tries to reform the opaque accreditation world, stakeholders worry that the Trump administration will go too…
America 250: Our Revolutionary Era Colleges Were Hotbeds of … Royalism
Harvard, Yale, and other colonial colleges helped shape the founders. But during the Revolution, the campuses were hardly in favor.