The universities that educate the majority of Americans are struggling. How college closures will reengineer America’s class system.

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

In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have a moral and existential obligation to serve the one student population that’s growing. We tracked how good a job they’re doing.  Founded in 1969, ...

Plus, our first-of-its-kind ranking of the best colleges for rural America.  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To ...

The best research universities driving American innovation aren’t just in blue states—and neither is the damage from Trump’s research cuts.

From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, how Fukuyama became a neoconservative movement dissenter.

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 ...

Richard Greenwald is dean and professor of history at Fairfield University. How the tidal wave of disappearing colleges will reengineer America’s class system.

Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.

The U.S. national debt recently surpassed $40 trillion. Reining it in is the only way to achieve progressive goals.

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