Why Public Schools Lost 1.4 Million Students

Earlier this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she's taught for a decade. This time she lost her job

Open Thread

Open Thread

Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare 

How Not to Waste Your Wildness

Inside the Tumultuous Private Life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate neuroscientist, on How Your Brain Knows Where You Are

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury

The secret life of a cell-cycle gatekeeper of breast cancer

What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers

Traditional Schools Are Losing Their Grip on K-12 Education

Trump Once Promised International Students Green Cards. Now The Government Might Charge Them $100,000 To Work.

Brendan Carr's Vendetta Against ABC Conflates the 'Public Interest' With Trump's Personal Grievances

New ‘connectome’ shows all 124 million contact points in the fruit fly’s nervous system

RFK Jr. Wants More FDA Oversight of Food Ingredients. It Could End Up Costing $210 Million.

How Did HeroCare Make $40 Million?

Mamdani Wants To Block a Law Giving Teachers' Aides $10,000 Bonuses. The Teachers Union Is Not Happy.

Opposition to Data Centers Makes Little Sense

During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher

The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism