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  1. Make Public Higher Education in the United States Completely Free Graduate Frederick Anderson stands in the pouring rain as President Barack Obama acknowledges him during the Morehouse College 129th Commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    1 Jan 2015 … Last night in his State of the Union address, the president said the words ‘free’ and ‘college’ in the same sentence. The administration’s proposal is a big deal. Continue reading
  2. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: Problems and Promise of School Today Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
    10 Oct 1988 … The writer and professor discusses philosophies of education, what makes some schools good and some teachers memorable, and her mother's extraordinary educational journey to a career as a child psychoanalyst. Continue reading
  3. Our Long National Debate Nightmare is Over A media circus was inevitable once Trump became the Republican nominee, and many people will be glad to see this campaign draw to a close. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    10 Oct 2016 … “No, you’re the puppet!” Well, that was grueling. How did the third and final debate manage to be so sensationalistic and yet at the same time so boring? It seemed to go on forever. Continue reading
  4. Labor Board Sides With Workers: Wal-Mart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer
    11 Nov 2013 … A landmark ruling by the National Labor Relations Board says Wal-Mart unlawfully harassed and fired employees for protesting. Continue reading
  5. “The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour LBJ delivers his "American Promise" speech to Congress
    3 Mar 2015 … It is unusual when a presidential address stands the test of time. But the words President Johnson uttered after what happened in Selma would forever mark that moment as the greatest in Johnson’s presidency. Continue reading
  6. A Former Inmate and Drug Addict on Incarceration, What You Need to Know About Iran, and Affirmative Action in College Admissions Prison
    6 Jun 2003 … How can the American corrections system break the cycles of addiction and incarceration? A look at the psyche of Iran, and should colleges offer race-based affirmative action? Continue reading
  7. Millennials Didn’t Abandon Our Institutions — Our Institutions Failed Them Cameron Karnes sorts CDs at Independent Records & Video March 14, 2006, in Denver. As a group, Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1999, are characterized as confident, hardworking and technologically fluent. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Kathryn Osler)
    3 Mar 2014 … Young people have every reason to feel detached from an array of major institutions that are no longer in tune with the problems that they face. Continue reading
  8. Single Women and the Vote; Protecting Voting Rights counting votes
    10 Oct 2004 … NOW and Michele Mitchell consider issues that are important to single women and might get them to the polls, and civil rights litigator Judith Browne discusses concerning voter suppression strategies. Continue reading
  9. Fading Hope Among the Urban Poor
    1 Jan 2013 … There’s been a lot of handwringing of late over the murder rate in Chicago. Everyone points out that last year’s number, 506, exceeded the previous year’s count by 16 percent. But if you look at the numbers over the past Continue reading
  10. Who Gets Abortions? You Might Be Surprised. World Trade Center PATH Station, Church Street, New York City. (Credit: John St. John | Flickr CC 2.0)
    11 Nov 2017 … There is an assumption that the women who undergo abortions are teenagers in high school or young childless women working toward a higher degree, or perhaps launching a career. This is an image that was imprinted on American society in Continue reading