Facing Political Attack and Falling Enrollment, Colleges Take the Fight to … Each Other
As Americans have fewer children, competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.
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admin The Heart of America Still Beats for Connection
The annual Heart of America Survey shows Americans worrying about economic pressure and craving leaders who end polarization.
Why Conservatives Are Losing Their War Against The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan’s moral sensibility, which conservatives claim to hate, is what makes his Odyssey film a masterpiece—and a blockbuster.
Trump’s Election Integrity Dud
Trump hardly proved the case against election integrity. He offered a word salad of incoherent complaints about elections.
Can Trump Steal the Midterms? Six Takeaways from Our Election Investigation
Trump is turning up the volume on his false claims of the 2020 election being stolen. But can he steal…
When Anti-Zionists Become Censors
The president of PEN America quit for reasons that are morally confused, hypocritical and, yes, casually anti-Semitic.
Brief Encounter: A Letter from a 19th Century Physician to Donald Trump
What James Parkinson, of the eponymous disease, might say to the president about his promoting infamously unhealthy coal power.
A Marine, Two Murders, and a War on Women
“Twentynine Palms,” a book deaths near a California Marine base, exposed sexual violence. Some things are better now, many are…
How to Save the IRS
DOGE broke the Internal Revenue Service. Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has thoughts on how to fix it.
How Trump and DOGE Broke the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service may never be the government’s most popular agency, but it could...