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Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus

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

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Faculty voices must be heard as decisions are made about reopening.

Christopher J. Lee

Technological changes threaten the interests of students and teachers alike.

R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle

How can we “make the case” to a society that doesn’t have ears to hear it?

Adam Kotsko

University administrators must be held accountable for their decisions to reopen campuses.

Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Small Changes, Big Results

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

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Back to Full Employment

Employment conditions in the United States today remain disastrous—worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s.

Robert Pollin

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Can Technology End Poverty?

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

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Democracy After Citizens United

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

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Mothers Who Care Too Much

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

Nancy J. Hirschmann

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Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Relationships between academic institutions and biotechnology companies create conflicts of interest that undermine the goals of academic medicine and harm the public.

Marcia Angell

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The Rules

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

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Something from Nothing

Counterinsurgency doesn’t make sense. It asks soldiers, concerned primarily with survival, to be Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa.

Nir Rosen

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Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.

Andrew Gelman, John Sides

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Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

Paul Collier

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The Case for Amnesty

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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Closing Guantánamo

We need to find a way to address serious and legitimate security concerns without the overkill of a general system of preventive detention for suspected terrorists. 

David Cole

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