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Why Is This Billionaire’s Name All Over Harvard’s Campus?
Investigating the relationship between Leslie Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvard University.
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Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?
It’s not the children who stopped reading. It’s their grandparents.
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A Test Isn’t Racist. Assumptions About Black Kids Can Be.
All students can be properly prepared to take this challenging admissions exam.
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How a Teacher Revived Backyard Baseball
Backyard Baseball, a favorite game for 1990s kids, had been off the market for years. But Lindsay Barnett was...
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“The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Isn’t Saying What You Think It Is
In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds...
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Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire
Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022...
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Judge Allows News Site to Publish School Lockdown Video but Sets Limits
Lawyers for the outlet, New Brunswick Today, said that the order, while a partial victory, still violated the First...
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Farewells to the Platner Campaign
Readers respond to an editorial about lessons from Graham Platner’s failed Senate campaign. Also: The Smithsonian’s...
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From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All
One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for...
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N.Y.C. Council Speaker Turns Up Pressure on Schools Chief Over Contracts
Julie Menin, the speaker, said she had been given excuses for why contracts had not been provided. The mayor’s office...
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Fake IDs, Dummy Manuscripts and a Rare Book Heist at U.C.L.A.
Jeffrey Ying, 39, was sentenced in an elaborate scheme to switch Chinese manuscripts from a University of California...
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California Orders Thousands of Drivers to Retake Rules of the Road Test
The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said that it had discovered irregularities in exam results of knowledge...
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Can America’s Best Engine of Social Mobility Weather a Bad Job Market?
New York City’s public universities propel young graduates into the middle class. But some worry that a bleaker early...
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Suspect Interacted With Charlie Kirk’s Group Before Killing, Prosecutors Say
In a hearing, prosecutors used videos to trace the steps of the man they accuse of assassinating Mr. Kirk, while...
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Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal
The university has been in talks to resolve investigations into its admissions practices. The law school’s dean and...
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The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s...
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Two Cases Raise Concerns About Civil Liberties in the U.S.
A man wrote an angry email to a government official, and federal agents came to his home. A reporter was barred from...
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Historians Reject Trump Administration’s Criticism of Smithsonian Museum
The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s...
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How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution?
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of...
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Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83
His 1998 book, “Gotham,” which told the city’s story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a...
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The Most American Episode of the Daily, Ever.
What 23 very American things tell us about our country.
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Things That Drive Us Crazy About Money in America
For all that’s good about our financial lives, there are distinctly American things that are decidedly suboptimal....
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How to Get School Policy Back on Track
Readers respond to “‘No Child Left Behind’ Nostalgia Is Delusional,” an Opinion guest essay by Ross Wiener.
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Black Soldiers In the Revolutionary War: A New England Journey
Across New England, a writer traveled down dirt paths and into historic homes to find the forgotten stories of the...
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Three Ways Trump Is Strangling Economic Growth
Despite the jobs numbers, the economy is deteriorating under Trump’s policies.
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How We’re Covering a Contentious Nation at 250
History can be a surprisingly newsy beat, according the journalists who are covering the semiquincentennial.
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Boston Is Drinking Like It’s 1776. The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud.
A summer of celebratory drinking is underway in the birthplace of the American Revolution. But however tipsy the...
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Columbia University Has a New President. Again. This One Plans to Stay.
Jennifer Mnookin will be the Ivy League university’s fifth president in four years. She describes herself as “a...
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Judges Strike Down Trump Rule on Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants
Two federal courts have blocked a new Trump administration rule that could have narrowed eligibility for a student...
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Professor Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk Wins $1.9 Million Settlement
Tamar Shirinian, a former professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, was among those who lost their jobs...
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Nursing Students and Others Get Higher Student Loan Limits
A legal challenge to a law that takes effect this week has doubled the amount certain graduate students can borrow...
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Courtney Sale Ross, Founder and Funder of a Quirky School, Dies at 78
Instead of home-schooling her daughter, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars building an idiosyncratic...
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Berkeley Will Start Institute Named for Pelosi
The Trump administration has been scrutinizing the University of California, Berkeley, which insists its new program...
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Texas Has a New Way to Teach History: In Chronological Order
Most states teach history by subject. Texas will go chronologically, starting with ancient history and reaching World...
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What Happens When Kids Design Playgrounds? Lava, Mushrooms, Giant Chess.
The people who know playgrounds best want a pink basketball court, hair-braiding station, and pollinator garden.
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Bible Passages Will Be Required Reading in Texas Public Schools
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic...
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Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal in Inquiry Over Race and Admissions
The university hired a high-powered law firm to try to reach an agreement with the Justice Department over claims its...
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Pro-MAGA Groups Spur Trump Push For Cultural Change In Schools
One nonprofit, Defending Education, initiated nearly a dozen civil rights investigations targeting diversity programs...
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These Unpaid Interns Want $32 an Hour. And Health Insurance.
A group of government interns is campaigning for a paid wage, reigniting a debate over ethics and opportunity in one...
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The High School Pipeline to South Korea’s Chip-Making Fortunes
Huge memory-chip profits from the global A.I. boom have increased interest in semiconductor factory work. But behind...
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Medical Journal Retracts Study Claiming Cancer Therapy Is More Effective When Given in the Morning
In a notice flagging a series of problems with a clinical trial, the journal Nature Medicine said its editors “no...
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Mamdani Ends Day Care Contract With Eric Adams’s Former Romantic Partner
The city had accused Jasmine Ray of fiscal mismanagement. She said that she had been unfairly targeted because of her...