The Student Loan Bailout
Cole Robertson : U.S. Economy
The credit crunch is hitting students hard, but is government aid going to shareholders and CEOs instead of the borrowers who need it most?
Higher Education
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2009
2008
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Schooled by the Storm
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University thrives, due in part to its revamped commitment to community.
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The 2008 Student Loan Blues
Nicholas von Hoffman : Youth, Education, & Children
Some 200,000 college students won't qualify for loans in September, and millions more will pay higher interest rates. Can they count on Obama to help them out?
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Exit Strategies: Confronting Faulty Grad Tests
A Tennessee student denied a valid high school diploma fights back.
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Warriors for Zion--in California
Accusations by right-wing Zionists of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine, are suspect at best.
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Lessons From Columbia '68
As Columbia University goes forward with controversial plans to expand into Harlem, alumni mark the fortieth anniversary of explosive student protests.
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Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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Sweatin' to the Koran
Katha Pollitt : Islam & Muslims
What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?
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Where Credit Is Due
To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
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The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.
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Professing Literature in 2008
William Deresiewicz : The Short of It
Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?
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Repress U
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Police & Law Enforcement
Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.
2007
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A Hoax Exposed at Princeton
Max Blumenthal : Conservatives & The American Right
When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.
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The Soldier and the Student
Today's military members face red tape, false advertising and multiple deployments. What happened to the promises of the original GI Bill?
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The Culture War Descends on Columbia
David Horowitz's Islamofascism Awareness Week hits the already beleaguered campus.
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The New McCarthyism
Larry Cohler-Esses : Middle East
A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.
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John Templeton's Universe
The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.
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Bonehead U
Forget about raising money for actual teaching or research. Institutions of higher learning would rather troll for money for their sports teams.
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Debating Ahmadinejad at Columbia
Jayati Vora : Public Figures & Intellectuals
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's combative remarks tarnish an otherwise illuminating event.
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Welcome to Fleece U
Barbara Ehrenreich : Predatory Lending
Our mission is to take feckless teenagers like you and turn them into full-fledged debtors.
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Funding Higher Ed
The Congressional overhaul of federal student aid is a good first step, but true reform of the system will require an effort on the scale of the GI Bill.
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Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks
Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?
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Voices in Conflict
Emily Douglas : Peace Activism
When Wilton High School censored a student play about the Iraq war, the cast went to the Public.
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Corrupt Colleges, Student Debt
Nicholas von Hoffman : White-Collar Crime
Corrupt college administrators have sold out students and buried them in a mountain of debt.
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In Praise of Immigrant Students
Ellen Chesler : Labor & Immigration
The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.
This week, the year in Radio(Nation).Palin, Clinton, and Bush; Klein, Navasky and Danto. Our most compelling interviews of 2008. (13mb mp3)
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