Higher Education

August 26, 2025

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Ideas

College-Age Jews Are Heading South

Rose Horowitch

August 26, 2025

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Family

How Parents Hijacked the College Dorm

Meagan Francis

August 26, 2025

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The Wonder Reader

College Sports Are Changing

Isabel Fattal

August 23, 2025

Ideas

The End of Niche College Sports

Marc Novicoff

August 19, 2025

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Technology

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

Ian Bogost

August 17, 2025

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Technology

The Culture War Over Nothing

Kaitlyn Tiffany

August 15, 2025

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Ideas

How States Could Throw University Science a Lifeline

L. Rafael Reif

August 14, 2025

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Ideas

The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another

Rose Horowitch

August 11, 2025

Economy

Trump Is a Degrowther

Annie Lowrey

August 9, 2025

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Ideas

Scammers Are Coming for College Students

Kevin Carey

July 29, 2025

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Books Briefing

What John le Carré Learned in Corfu

Boris Kachka

July 25, 2025

Politics

Columbia Protected Its Funding and Sacrificed Its Freedom

Franklin Foer

July 24, 2025

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Book Recommendations

Eight Books That Explain the University Crisis

Tyler Austin Harper

July 21, 2025

Ideas

Can This Man Save Harvard?

Franklin Foer

July 18, 2025

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Ideas

Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment

Rose Horowitch

July 17, 2025

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Ideas

Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 11, 2025

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Ideas

Lunch With Virginia Woolf

Xochitl Gonzalez

July 4, 2025

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Global

Chinese Students Feel a Familiar Chill in America

Lavender Au

July 2, 2025

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Ideas

What the Right Learned From the Left About Policing Colleges

Conor Friedersdorf

June 29, 2025

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Atlantic Intelligence

The College-Major Gamble

Damon Beres

June 27, 2025

Ideas

A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest

Tom Nichols

June 25, 2025

A graphic featuring Pauline Shanks Kaurin, a silhouette of Kaurin with an X penned over, and two buildings at the Naval War College

Economy

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Rose Horowitch

June 21, 2025

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Books Briefing

How a Book Can Change a Graduate’s Life

Emma Sarappo

June 20, 2025

Global

No More Student Visas? No Problem.

Michael Schuman

June 14, 2025

Tsinghua University graduates attend their commencement ceremony in caps and gowns.

Ideas

An Appeal to My Alma Mater

Conor Friedersdorf

June 8, 2025

Ideas

Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

June 5, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Why Skepticism About College Is Hard to Shake

Isabel Fattal

June 4, 2025

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Culture

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era

Michael Waters

June 4, 2025

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The Wonder Reader

When College Graduates Face Reality

Isabel Fattal

May 31, 2025

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Ideas

Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard

Greg Lukianoff

May 30, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

The Long Goodbye to College

Amogh Dimri

May 29, 2025

Ideas

Trump’s Campaign to Scare Off Foreign Students

Rose Horowitch

May 28, 2025

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Ideas

The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun

Rose Horowitch

May 27, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

In Defense of Academic Freedom

Conor Friedersdorf

May 22, 2025

Science

The Trump Administration Is Tempting a Honeybee Disaster

Joanna Thompson

May 20, 2025

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Sections

The Print Edition

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

College-Age Jews Are Heading South

How Parents Hijacked the College Dorm

College Sports Are Changing

The End of Niche College Sports

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

The Culture War Over Nothing

How States Could Throw University Science a Lifeline

The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another

Trump Is a Degrowther

Scammers Are Coming for College Students

What John le Carré Learned in Corfu

Columbia Protected Its Funding and Sacrificed Its Freedom

Eight Books That Explain the University Crisis

Can This Man Save Harvard?

Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment

Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Lunch With Virginia Woolf

Chinese Students Feel a Familiar Chill in America

What the Right Learned From the Left About Policing Colleges

The College-Major Gamble

A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

How a Book Can Change a Graduate’s Life

No More Student Visas? No Problem.

An Appeal to My Alma Mater

Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

Why Skepticism About College Is Hard to Shake

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era

When College Graduates Face Reality

Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard

The Long Goodbye to College

Trump’s Campaign to Scare Off Foreign Students

The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun

In Defense of Academic Freedom

The Trump Administration Is Tempting a Honeybee Disaster