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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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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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Is It Africa's Turn?

Progress in the world's poorest region.

Edward Miguel

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Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It

How to meet the security threat.

Jonathan Zittrain

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Can We Stop Global Warming?

There is a lot we don't know about climate change, but what we do know should motivate us to action.

Kerry Emanuel

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Making Aid Work

Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need field experiments—randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

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Exit Strategy

The war as it has evolved badly serves U.S. interests. A well-planned disengagement will serve them much better by reducing military, economic, and political costs.

Barry R. Posen

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What’s Hurting the Middle Class

If families are making more money than ever and are still in financial trouble, surely the critics are right: Americans are overborrowing. But the data tell a different story.

Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi

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In the National Interest

A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

Stephen M. Walt

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The Right Fight

Enlisted by the feds, can police find sleeper cells and protect civil rights, too?

Daniel Richman

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How Can the Democrats Win?

Democrats must embrace an economic liberalism superjumbo, and they must stick with it even if they lose.

Rick Perlstein

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What We Owe to Parents

The goal should not be to render child-rearing costless. The goal should be to lighten the burden.

Anne L. Alstott

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What Makes Schools Work?

Why private-school tuition vouchers are not the answer.

Richard D. Kahlenberg , Bernard Wasow

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