If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree.

Donald Trump is gutting the Education Department—and creating opportunities for widespread fraud.

Donald Trump just upended the loan repayment system.

Elon Musk’s penchant for posting constantly on social media just came back to bite him.

A botched rollout of a new FAFSA form could mean that dramatically fewer students enroll in college in the fall.

Why Biden’s struggle with that voting bloc isn’t as worrisome as it looks

The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.

A new investigation has found that the numbers submitted by the plaintiffs simply don’t add up.

Conservative legal activists and jurists hate it when the government throws a lifeline to poor people and students, but not when it does the same for banks.

There are enough justices who seem to oppose the president’s proposal on the merits. That doesn’t mean there are enough votes to strike it down—yet.

The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan, which is being challenged at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, proves otherwise.

It’s by no means clear that the high court will ultimately spike the administration’s loan forgiveness plan, but it will have a range of opportunities.

The suits brought by the Cato Institute and other more mysterious plaintiffs are totally meritless. The president has the power to make them null and void—if he’ll use it.

A rather odd plaintiff—with some convoluted legal arguments—has emerged to sue the administration over its loan forgiveness proposal.

The party is getting some subtantial things done—and catching a lot of lucky breaks.

A lot of the administration’s plans have perished at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc. But killing this debt-forgiveness program will be tricky.

There are an untold number of borrowers who deserve some targeted relief of their own.

Though not nearly enough, the president’s move is a good one—and is the result of a decade-plus of activism by thousands of brave Americans.

Moderates don’t actually have any ideas to address the student loan crisis.

Bernie Sanders got this right: We’ll have to make college free, or close to it.