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Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

D.D. Guttenplan on Occupy London, George Zornick on corporate tax evaders, Alexandra Tempus on corporate schools

Does the new dean have the courage to admit that HBS’s core methods produce hard hearts, superficial thinking, and arrogance?

The Medill School of Journalism's change of name is indicative of wider -- and frightening -- trends in journalism education.

Declaring a global “orphan crisis,” US evangelicals ride to the rescue—with unintended results.

Ari Berman on the firing of Northwestern journalism professor David Protess, Doug Henwood on Robert Fitch and John Nichols on Michigan's “emergency financial managers.”
 

A former volunteer offers a more timely—and radical—alternative.

Ramona Ripston, who is stepping down after forty years as the head of the ACLU of Southern California, transformed the meaning of civil liberties.