In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have a moral and existential obligation to serve the one student population that’s growing. We tracked how good a job they’re doing.
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America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges
Higher education is under a level of scrutiny that the industry has not seen in our lifetimes. The Trump administration’s efforts to take a blowtorch to the U.S. Department of Education and Ivy League institutions are unprecedented, but state governments, foundations, and the general public are demanding that colleges and universities do more to help […]
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A Note on Methodology: Four-Year Colleges and Universities
We ranked 1,421 colleges on access, affordability, outcomes, and service.
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The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It’s Regulated Competition.
From airlines to energy, shipbuilding to railroads, America became a capitalist superpower in the 20th century based on careful market rules. It can do so again.
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Resurrecting the Rebel Alliance
To end the age of Trump, Democrats must relearn the language and levers of power.
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God and Man at Sea
William F. Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
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What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance
The country’s leaders thought they could restore the nation’s lost glory through alliance with Hitler. By 1945, Budapest lay in ruins and 550,000 Hungarian Jews were dead.
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The Supreme Court’s Immunity-to-Impunity Pipeline
Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today’s Court is not checking Trump’s authoritarianism—it’s codifying it.
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Clever the Twain Shall Meet
An epic new biography of Samuel Clemens confirms the Missourian’s literary mastery but contends that the most important character he ever created was his own.
