Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced ...

Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the ...

Fifty dollars for STEM, five cents for citizenship—that’s how America apportions its education dollars. Our beleaguered ...

Silencing and capturing universities and the free press—both of them crucial sources of knowledge essential to democratic ...

Yes! I thought, as I read these lines from the Russian American poet Joseph Brodsky in a 1989 love poem, “A Song.” There’s something about the ineffable beauty of life that formal knowledge misses. So ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize ... a whopping 85 percent in the Electoral College. As the writer Gerald W.

A bored child might scratch off all the stickers with a fingernail—and, like a young archaeologist, reveal a lost world. From 1969 to 1982—just 13 years—the United States suffered four ...

Recently, I felt a great disturbance in the world of podcasts ... Murray believes that the United States has a duty to safeguard freedom and democracy abroad through military action, including ...

In Donald Trump’s administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem rotates through various costumes—firefighting gear for drills with the United ... as a college student, she had ...