In case you missed it, Chris Hayes had a highly informative segment on All In last Friday night on Obama’s college affordability initiative and the underlying cost spiral, which included Seton Hall professor and WaMo contributor Robert Kelchen, who talked about our “Bang-for-the-Buck” rankings of colleges and how they differ from the better-known U.S. News rankings. Check it out:

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.