Rose Horowitch

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When the Trump administration announced that it was canceling $400 million worth of grants to and contracts with Columbia University, ostensibly to punish

If the Trump administration’s goal was to sow chaos among America’s colleges, it has definitely succeeded. Last month, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to universities explaining the agency’s view that, because of the Supreme Court’s

It is a basic fact of American life, so widely known that it hardly needs to be said: College is getting ever more unaffordable. In survey after survey, Americans say that the cost of getting a degree just keeps rising.

Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Achisatha Khamsuwan / Getty; jayk7 / Getty. November 29, 2024, 11 AM ET This is an edition of the Books Briefing,

Six years ago, the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, in Manhattan, announced that it would become tuition-free for all students. The change was made possible in part thanks to a $100 million donation from Kenneth Langone, a Home

More than a year since the World Health Organization declared the end of the pandemic public-health emergency, you might expect the remote-work wars to have reached a peace settlement. Plenty of academic research suggests that hybrid policies, which white-collar professionals

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1988. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned,