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Besides overturning the very structure of higher education virtually overnight, COVID-19 will also accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends.
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
With Responses From
Christopher J. Lee
R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle
Adam Kotsko
Jeffrey C. Isaac
In politics as in life, you get what you pay for. In politics today, taxpayers are hiring mediocre talent, candidates who think their job is to duck the big policy issues in order to get elected and reelected.
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper
That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.
Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer
Employment conditions in the United States today remain disastrous—worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s.
Robert Pollin
Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.
Kentaro Toyama
The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.
Lawrence Lessig
Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.
Nancy J. Hirschmann
Relationships between academic institutions and biotechnology companies create conflicts of interest that undermine the goals of academic medicine and harm the public.
Marcia Angell
The market should deliver public benefits, and government can help ensure that the bounties of capitalism actually are shared for the good of wider society.
Eliot Spitzer
Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.
Nir Rosen
The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.
Andrew Gelman, John Sides
If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.
Paul Collier
The right of government to deport irregular migrants is not absolute. That right weakens as time passes and the migrants become members of society.
Joseph H. Carens
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