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June 29, 2023
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Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Started a New Legal War Over College Diversity
The affirmative action ruling doesn’t end the diversity debate so much as push it into new areas.
January 24, 2022
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Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Gets Ready to End Affirmative Action
Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.
May 25, 2021
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William Egginton
Academic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear.
Even when tenure decisions aren’t influenced by politics, they often exacerbate deep inequalities. And professors who do get tenure are untouchable.
September 10, 2020
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Nick Martin
Academia Was Built on White Theft
Jessica Krug is an outlier. The real story of higher education’s racist vulturism has been made mundane through time.
August 29, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Swarthmore v. Student in a Battle over Rape
November 16, 2012
Will Blythe
How to Save College Basketball
September 7, 2012
Lydia DePillis
The Trouble with Measuring 'Tweets Per Minute'
March 22, 2012
Timothy Noah
Trayvon Martin's Imaginary Weapon
January 13, 2011
Jason Zengerle
The Idealist
Jeff Smith was a rising political star. Then the FBI started asking questions about his past.
August 21, 2010
Seyward Darby
Burr Is Cold
April 15, 2009
Jason Zengerle
Empty Garden
January 16, 2008
Jason Zengerle
Is College Basketball Bad For The Environment?
October 3, 2005
Franklin Foer
Swimming with Sharks
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