As War Rages in Ukraine, Finland Offers Answers

The Nordic nation’s prosperity and careful neutrality could provide a model for a peace settlement between Moscow and Kyiv.

How Tina Turner, Pick-Up Basketball, and Sister Cities Can Undo Trump’s Diplomatic Disasters

A scholar and former “Ambassadude” shows why people-to-people contacts can help Biden, Blinken—and America.

The meeting in Helsinki is not a summit. It’s collusion and capitulation.

A new report makes a nuanced case for what post-secondary graduates need to get ahead.

by Bruno V. Manno

Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.

by Bruno V. Manno

High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave.

by Jon Marcus

New survey data suggests that more Americans might see the value of a degree if schools simplified their pricing systems.

by Michael T. Nietzel