Higher education needs a systemic solution to its problems of access, affordability, and quality. We have a plan.
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Idea for Harris: An Opportunity Agenda for Gen X
The vice president’s economic plan has many good things for Millennial families. But there’s more that could help those in Gen X
Unforgiven: The Supreme Court and the Student Loan Conundrum
Its rejection of the Biden administration’s plan fuels cynicism and seems to foreclose similar initiatives going forward.
The Conservative Justices and the “Major Questions” Hustle
Conservative jurists demand “textualism” to get what they want, except when a statute’s words thwart their desired goal. But by using a new trick, they break their own rules. That’s how they blew up the EPA’s Clean Power Rule and may soon eviscerate Biden’s student loan relief.
The Republicans Are Coming After Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
Yesterday, the first legal challenge was filed to kill the measure, but the administration is on solid legal ground.
How Washington Tries to Strangle Even the Best Ideas
The inside story of how a bill became a law shows how the capital’s self-interested forces nearly derailed one of the most important reforms since the GI Bill.

