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Colleges Are Spending 7 Times More on Athletics Than They Are on Academics

Colleges Are Spending 7 Times More on Athletics Than They Are on Academics Colleges Are Spending 7 Times More on Athletics Than They Are on Academics

It’s time to stop and ask where your money is going—and why.

Oct 15, 2015 / Brave New Films

High Noon Over Syria

High Noon Over Syria High Noon Over Syria

Are the US and Russia gearing up for another proxy war?

Oct 15, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen

Treasury

Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis? Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis?

A simple accounting trick is arming austerity hawks with a powerful, phony weapon.

Oct 15, 2015 / Ari Rabin-Havt

Fight for 15 protest

It’s Science: Raising the Minimum Wage Would Make America a Happier Place It’s Science: Raising the Minimum Wage Would Make America a Happier Place

The American Psychological Association is marshaling research that shows alleviating poverty improves mental health.

Oct 15, 2015 / Benjamin Ryan

We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF

We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF

Our money is better spent elsewhere, for a few simple reasons.

Oct 15, 2015 / Mike Konczal

Workers in a Foxconn factory in Guangdong province, China.

2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film 2 Things You Won’t Learn From the New Steve Jobs Film

Apple is relentless toward its overseas labor force and remarkably innovative in its approach to tax avoidance.

Oct 15, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman

How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?

How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’? How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’?

Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow.

Oct 15, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

John Boehner

The Freedom Caucus The Freedom Caucus

The GOP’s in disarray. The Freedom Caucus wants its say. It’s time, they think, to take a stand For principles from cuckoo land.

Oct 15, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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Letters From the November 2, 2015, Issue Letters From the November 2, 2015, Issue

Judging the Court… Hitchens’s exceptionalism… Don’t burn Bernie!… Sinatra always had a cold…

Oct 15, 2015 / Our Readers and Greg Grandin

Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion

Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion Rot as Rapture, Filth as Rebellion

In Ottessa Moshfegh’s first full-length novel, the allure of dissolution is that it demands nothing.

Oct 15, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Katie Ryder

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