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The Last Man Comes Full Circle

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How to Pick a College in the Age of AI

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A Radically Simple Plan to Fix Higher Education

by Kevin Carey August 26, 2026August 26, 2026

Ted Turner (1938 – 2026), the late founder of CNN, on the cover of the Washington Monthly in July 2004,

Ted Turner’s Beef With Big Media

by Ted Turner and The Editors May 6, 2026May 6, 2026

U.S.-led international order and NATO

Why the U.S.-led Liberal World Order Is Only Mostly Dead

by Paul Glastris May 4, 2026May 5, 2026

Algorithmic Pricing: What looks like the invisible hand is increasingly the work of automated pricing systems.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay

by Stacy Mitchell April 20, 2026May 5, 2026

Democrats can rebuild trust on education by combining the best of centrist and progressive ideas to improve K-12 outcomes.

How Democrats Can Win on Education Again

by Thomas Toch April 9, 2026May 5, 2026

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Are You There, Judy?

by Sara Bhatia April 8, 2026May 5, 2026

College-Educated Working Class: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders rally with Starbucks workers pushing to unionize for better pay and working conditions.

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Frappuccino Socialists

by Kenneth S. Baer April 7, 2026May 5, 2026

Roe’s Autopsy: The death of Roe v. Wade followed decades of premeditation. Here, “Operation Rescue” organizer Randall Terry shows a crowd of anti-abortion protesters a human fetus during a sit-in outside the Northeast Women’s Center in Philadelphia, July, 1988.

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Who Killed Roe v. Wade?

by Clara Bingham April 6, 2026May 5, 2026

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