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.

Katha Pollitt

The College-Admissions Scandal

Calvin Trillin

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.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Life in the Stupidverse Continues

Another week with Donald Trump and his merry band of idiots.

Tom Tomorrow

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

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

Michelle Chen

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.”

Elie Mystal

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.

Margaret Cerullo

A CFPB Official Who Quit in Protest Will Testify About the Bureau’s ‘Incompetence’

Seth Frotman has tough words for CFPB’s political leadership, and big ideas on how to solve the student-debt crisis. 

George Zornick

Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That

They demand that the university cancel its holdings in the Puerto Rican debt and divest from the fossil-fuel industry.

Adriana Colón-Adorno and Alejandro Comas-Short

Help! I’m Infatuated With Another Professor. Can I Ask Her Out Without Being a Jerk?

Another reader asks if he should discourage his wife from air travel to reduce emissions.

Liza Featherstone