Adam Harris
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He is the author of The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, Adam was a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering federal higher-education policy and HBCUs. At The Atlantic, he writes about politics and education.
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Getty; The Atlantic No, Student Loans Aren’t Like a Mortgage
Senator Elizabeth Warren on why she believes that student debt should be canceled, and how to prevent a debt situation like this from happening again
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Darren McCollester / Getty The Supreme Court’s Next Targets
The conservative majority is likely to overturn major precedents this term—not just Roe.
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Getty; The Atlantic School Boards Are No Match for America’s Political Dysfunction
What happens when schools are no longer the central business of school boards?
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Melissa Golden / Redux Attending an HBCU Has Always Been an Act of Courage
This week’s bomb threats haven’t stopped students from carrying on. America has a long and violent history of trying to keep Black people out of classrooms.
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Getty; The Atlantic Schools Aren’t the Republicans’ Ticket to Victory
School issues are pitting Americans against one another, but they aren’t surefire winners for either party.
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Maggie Shannon / The New York Times / … The Remote-Option Divide
As schools push ahead with plans to hold classes in person, only some parents are going to have a choice as to whether to keep their kids home.
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Illustration by Dakarai Akil; images by H. Armstrong … This Is the End of Affirmative Action
What are we going to do about it?
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Threat of an Unvaccinated South
COVID-19 patients are once again filling up hospitals in the Deep South as leaders struggle to get constituents immunized.
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Archive Photos / Getty; Joe Raedle / Getty; … The Only Thing Integrating America
Cities with a large military presence are some of the most diverse places in the country.
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Thibodeaux / Bloomberg / Getty The Steep Cost of Decades of Discrimination
It will take more than a onetime injection to Black colleges to make up for a legacy of racism.
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Steve Liss / CSA Images / Getty / … The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession
How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach
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Rita Barros / Getty The Burden of Being ‘On Point’
Too often, traumatized Black boys’ behavior is pathologized. It’s actually rational.
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Biggest Problem for America’s Schools
Summer programs will help. But they won’t be enough.
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Molly Crabapple America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama
When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Representative Jahana Hayes is leading a push to kick Greene off of the House Education Committee. Should Greene be expelled from the House entirely?
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Stephanie Keith / Getty America Can’t Exhale Just Yet
Demonstrations across the country after the Capitol riot were small, but more violence may soon come.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Will 2021 Hold for Cities?
With no help coming from the federal government, can Richmond’s mayor still execute an equity agenda?
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Bryan R. Smith / AFP / Getty The People vs. Hate
Karl Racine and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general want to curb hate crimes. Can they succeed where others have failed?
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William Widmer / Redux Is American Healing Even Possible?
In an extended interview, the Reverend William J. Barber II explains why healing the soul of the nation will take more than returning to “normal.”
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ERIN SCHAFF / The New York Times / … What Biden Owes Black Voters
Black voters helped save the president-elect’s primary campaign and put him over the top in the general election. Now they want action.
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