Every activist has read the increasing number of stories where homelessness is being criminalized, as if simply being homeless isn’t punishment enough. However, there is…
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Every time I write about a book about Bernie Sanders, somebody sends me a better one. If this keeps up, by the time his campaign…
Four years ago, Todd Rider was on top of the world. The MIT-trained bioengineer had developed a radical idea for killing viruses. Initial test results showed that his…
On Oct. 1, 1964, hundreds of University of California-Berkeley students surrounded a police car to protest the arrest of a student. Students stood on top…
The American student loan crisis is often seen as a problem of profligacy and predation. Wasteful colleges raise tuition every year, we are told, even…
There is no doubt that the pace of technological development we’ve seen in recent years has been both amazing, and frightening. It’s certainly made our…
There are certain advantages to writing out the ideas central to this blog in weekly bursts. Back in the days before the internet, when a…
The term “proxy war” has experienced a new popularity in stories on the Middle East. Various news sources began using the term to describe the…
I know a high school senior who’s so worried about whether she’ll be accepted at the college of her choice she can’t sleep. The parent…
As Americans, we tend to be pretty full of ourselves, and this is especially true of our young people. But do we really have reason…