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Thursday, August 27, was the first day of the new normal, but it didn’t yet feel normal to any of us in Kyiv.

When you stop grading by snob appeal, the truly excellent ones shine. Plus, our new ranking of the best colleges for rural America.

Comparing Trump to Hitler is considered facile, a trivialization of genocide. But their rises to power are frighteningly similar.

Class Dismissed: Wells College, a 156-year-old private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, shown here in 2024, is one of more than 300 degree-granting institutions that have shuttered since 2008 ...

Voters are clear in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here’s how to deliver it.

The Best Colleges for Rural America reveal how some of higher ed’s biggest returns are happening in the country’s most remote corners.

To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,950 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated ...

Go on any online forum, and you will see progressives decry “the DNC” as a corrupt bastion of the insider establishment politics that has become toxic to so many primary voters. Meanwhile, DNC Chair ...