Concepts only: President Donald Trump announces a new health care proposal that includes few details and little prospect of lowering costs. Credit: Associated Press One year into his second term, ...

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.

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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, ...

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.

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

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 ...

In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have an existential obligation to serve Hispanic students, the one population that’s growing.

Imagine you’re looking for a nice place to have dinner, but all the “best restaurants” ranked by your local media outlets turn out to be in members-only country clubs. You’d probably think, “Hmmm, I ...