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On the Offbeat
A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.
A More Prosperous Future
Two years of free community college will provide hardworking young Americans an affordable, quality education and safeguard our nation's global competitiveness, write Jill Biden and Eric Garcetti.
Students on the Spectrum
Only 30 percent of high school graduates with autism ever attend a two- or four-year college, but the institutions, not the students, are the problem, Elizabeth and Margaret Finnegan argue.
Holding Data Up as a Mirror
As we begin a new academic year, institutional leaders should engage their campus communities in honest, data-driven conversations about what to do better, argues Bonita J. Brown.
While You Were Out This Summer
Surprised at some of the changes you see on your campus as you return from the summer? David Galef provides a tongue-in-cheek review of what's taken place.
Scabbing on Our Future Selves
Joseph G. Ramsey reflects on grad students’ earlier efforts to unionize, arguing that those students who simply accepted low pay and few benefits were helping their own longed-for tenure-track jobs to disappear.
Unmanageable Quagmire or Elegant Distinction?
Natasha Baker analyzes the potential impact of the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on graduate assistants' right to unionize at Columbia University.
Fundamental Trump
Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.