Higher Education

February 27, 2025

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Economy

The Job Market Is Frozen

Rogé Karma

February 26, 2025

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Ideas

The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping

Rose Horowitch

February 20, 2025

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Health

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials

Katherine J. Wu

February 19, 2025

Ideas

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms

David Deming

February 11, 2025

Health

A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

Ian Bogost

February 10, 2025

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Ideas

The New Authoritarianism

Steven Levitsky

February 10, 2025

Ideas

The Race-Blind College-Admissions Era Is Off to a Weird Start

Rose Horowitch

February 3, 2025

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Science

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started

Ian Bogost

January 24, 2025

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Letters

Harvard Didn’t Break America

February 2025 Issue

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Ideas

What Taylor Swift Understands About Love

Miranda Featherstone

January 3, 2025

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Ideas

How to Move On From the Worst of Identity Politics

Conor Friedersdorf

December 15, 2024

Technology

How to Marry Into Academia

Ian Bogost

December 8, 2024

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Books Briefing

How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time

Rose Horowitch

November 29, 2024

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Letters

October 31, 2024

Ideas

Solidarity and Gaza

Vann R. Newkirk II

October 29, 2024

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Fiction

Case Study

Weike Wang

October 26, 2024

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Atlantic Intelligence

The Schools Without ChatGPT Plagiarism

Matteo Wong

October 25, 2024

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Ideas

ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College

Tyler Austin Harper

October 23, 2024

Ideas

The Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Free Medical School

Rose Horowitch

October 21, 2024

Ideas

The Jewish Quarterback at a Mormon College

McKay Coppins

October 18, 2024

Ideas

The Poet of Loose Women Everywhere

Xochitl Gonzalez

October 13, 2024

Ideas

Hillels Are Under Attack

Mayim Bialik

October 9, 2024

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Education

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Rose Horowitch

November 2024 Issue

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Dear Therapist

Dear Therapist: I Ran Into the Man Who Raped Me

Lori Gottlieb

September 30, 2024

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Work In Progress

We Need Supply-Side Education Policy

David Deming

September 27, 2024

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Ideas

Saving the Idea of the University

Sian Leah Beilock

September 14, 2024

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Ideas

The Friendship Paradox

Olga Khazan

September 4, 2024

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Ideas

How Colleges Should Address Anti-Semitism

Conor Friedersdorf

September 1, 2024

Ideas

The Worst Advice Parents Can Give First-Year Students

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

August 25, 2024

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Technology

AI Cheating Is Getting Worse

Ian Bogost

August 19, 2024

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Books

This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel

Nicolás Medina Mora

August 6, 2024

Politics

The Emerging Bipartisan Wokeness

Tyler Austin Harper

July 23, 2024

Ideas

How Liberal College Campuses Benefit Conservative Students

Lauren A. Wright

July 8, 2024

Sections

The Print Edition

Grad School Is in Trouble

The Job Market Is Frozen

The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping

The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials

DOGE Is Failing on Its Own Terms

A New Kind of Crisis for American Universities

The New Authoritarianism

The Race-Blind College-Admissions Era Is Off to a Weird Start

The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started

Harvard Didn’t Break America

What Taylor Swift Understands About Love

How to Move On From the Worst of Identity Politics

How to Marry Into Academia

How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time

Falling in Love With Reading Will Change Your Life

How the Ivy League Broke America

America’s Class Politics Have Turned Upside Down

Solidarity and Gaza

Case Study

The Schools Without ChatGPT Plagiarism

ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College

The Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Free Medical School

The Jewish Quarterback at a Mormon College

The Poet of Loose Women Everywhere

Hillels Are Under Attack

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Dear Therapist: I Ran Into the Man Who Raped Me

We Need Supply-Side Education Policy

Saving the Idea of the University

The Friendship Paradox

How Colleges Should Address Anti-Semitism

The Worst Advice Parents Can Give First-Year Students

AI Cheating Is Getting Worse

This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel

The Emerging Bipartisan Wokeness

How Liberal College Campuses Benefit Conservative Students