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March 28, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”
The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
May 30, 2019
Lizzie O'Shea
Digital Privacy Is a Class Issue
As corporations mine data and monetize the web, the divide between rich and poor on the Internet grows wider.
December 21, 2016
Magazine
Rachel M. Cohen
How to Stop For-Profit Colleges
Lawmakers are cracking down on them for shady business practices. But sociology professor Tressie McMillan Cottom says bigger forces are at play.
March 11, 2016
Clio Chang
Those positive reviews for Trump University were reportedly coerced.
July 26, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Leon Panetta Quits the Awful College He Never Should Have Gone to Work For
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