The Admissions Scandal Is About Parental Narcissism—and the Schools’ Complicity The Admissions Scandal Is About Parental Narcissism—and the Schools’ Complicity

This is what college looks like for entitled parents who don’t care about education, and whose children don’t care either.

Mar 21, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The College-Admissions Scandal The College-Admissions Scandal

Admissions advantages rich kids enjoy Were hardly sufficient for one wealthy faction. Through cheating and bribing they paid to create Their very own form of affirmative action.

Mar 21, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin

College Admissions Scams, From Jared Kushner to Hollywood College Admissions Scams, From Jared Kushner to Hollywood

Amy Wilentz on bribery and cheating, Rebecca Grant on abortion in Mississippi, and Bryce Covert on Medicaid in Arkansas.

Mar 21, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Life in the Stupidverse Continues Life in the Stupidverse Continues

Mar 19, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

For-Profit Colleges Are Dodging Regulation by Becoming… ‘Nonprofits’? For-Profit Colleges Are Dodging Regulation by Becoming… ‘Nonprofits’?

Under Trump, the scam-college industry is getting a second wind.

Mar 18, 2019 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis

The struggle for fair funding goes way beyond the district. So now the teachers are taking their fight to Sacramento.

Mar 18, 2019 / Bryce Covert

Lori Loughlin Probably Thinks My Kids Have It Easy Lori Loughlin Probably Thinks My Kids Have It Easy

Behind the college admissions scandal is a deeply held belief that minorities are out there, “gaining advantages.”

Mar 14, 2019 / Elie Mystal

Gun-Control Activists Should Also Take on America’s Drone Wars Gun-Control Activists Should Also Take on America’s Drone Wars

Through its endless wars, Washington has been the true school shooter on this planet, terrorizing the global classroom with a remarkable lack of consequences. 

Mar 12, 2019 / Allegra Harpootlian

The Unmaking of a College: Notes From Inside the Hampshire Runaway Train The Unmaking of a College: Notes From Inside the Hampshire Runaway Train

If Hampshire goes under, the arts and the liberal arts as inspiration to lives of critical inquiry and social engagement will have been dealt another serious blow.

Mar 8, 2019 / Margaret Cerullo

Letters From the March 25, 2019, Issue Letters From the March 25, 2019, Issue

The Dangers of Amnesia In his cover story “Who Is Matt Duss and Can He Take On ‘The Blob’?” [Feb. 25/March 4], David Klion misleadingly describes Barack Obama’s adviser Ben Rhodes…

Mar 7, 2019 / Our Readers