If You’re Worried About Free Speech on Campus, Don’t Fear Students—Fear the Koch Brothers
How billionaires and college administrators are using their power to silence students.
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A Texas Principal and the Casual Criminalization of Race and Disability in Schools
School officials shouldn't joke about calling the cops on vulnerable children. They should also stop treating non-compliance as criminal.
More American Students Are Being Lured to Canadian Universities
Blame the high cost of tuition in the U.S. and the 2016 election results.
Is It Time to Rethink Campus Protest?
In a new era of protest and de-platforming, conservatives have defensively invested the First Amendment with a transcendent power and moral authority it does not warrant. What happens when equality and free speech are in direct opposition?
Why the Arizona Teachers’ Strike Should Terrify Anti-Union Governors
As in other recent red-state teachers' strikes, the Arizona teachers were agitating not just for raises but for a wholesale improvement of the state's system of education.
Is Democracy Really Dying?
Three new books offer bracing lessons from European and Latin American history to help explain rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and beyond.
The Importance of Teaching Gender In International Relations Classrooms
You can't understand international security without thinking about gender and the many ways it influences behavior, access, and opportunity.
The History of the World According to David Brooks
Brooks depends on a lazy and ignorant story about tribalism to bolster a specific myth about American exceptionalism.
The Department of Education Puts the Brakes on a Texas Schools Civil Rights Investigation
Betsy Devos is leading a movement to roll back the initiatives used by the Obama administration to reduce racial discrimination in school punishments.
In Colorado, Labor Reform Has Created a Huge Rift on the Left
Sharp divisions between labor unions and reformers threaten to tear apart the Democratic Party in the Centennial State.