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Samantha Powers is an editorial intern at the Washington Monthly. She studies journalism and political science at Northwestern University, where she served as managing editor of The Daily Northwestern.
With good teachers, innovative approaches to behavioral issues in K-12 schools can improve student outcomes. Trump-era policies threaten those teachers and reforms.
Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward.
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Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don’t.
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Except that the Trump administration killed Direct File, the IRS’s successful free program.
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In the fight for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s likely pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.
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From threatening Denmark to belittling NATO, Trump has strained the alliance, but his affronts—including berating allies for not joining his Persian Gulf adventure—are speeding a European future without American leadership.
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The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
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His proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is pure Trump.
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