Adam Harris
The Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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LM Otero / AP When ICE Raids Homes
For years, immigration agents targeted people at businesses, but in recent years, knocking on the doors of houses and apartments has become more common.
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Amy Harris / Invision / AP Pete Buttigieg Is Ready to Talk About Racial Inequality
The candidate has struggled to attract black voters, but now he has a robust plan to signal his commitment to helping them.
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Tom Merton / Getty Many College Students Are Too Poor to Eat
But no one can agree on just how many. Now lawmakers are introducing a bill to change that.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Leah Millis / Reuters / ... The 10 Presidential Candidates Who Support Busing
Many 2020 Democrats agree that school segregation is a significant problem, but not all of them want the federal government to step in.
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Becky Bohrer / AP Higher Education Has Become a Partisan Issue
And university budgets are suffering as a result.
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Office of Inspector General / DHS / Handout ... An Astonishing Government Report on Conditions at the Border
Federal investigators detailed dangerous overcrowding and long detention times at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
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Tom Fowlks / Getty Are Small Private Colleges Worth the Money?
Paying for college is becoming more difficult. So is justifying the full-freight cost of some private institutions.
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John Vachon / Library of Congress The Education Deserts of Rural America
The college-completion gap between rural and urban residents is widening.
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Saul Loeb / Getty / The Atlantic The Confrontation That Laid Bare the Democratic Party’s Evolution
And the country’s
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Sets Bernie Sanders’s Student-Debt Plan Apart
The senator, alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, announced legislation to cancel all student-loan debt and make college debt-free.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Everyone Wants to Talk About Reparations. But for How Long?
The issue makes the occasional blip in the national conversation. Yet in communities that have been fighting inequality for generations, it is more like the steady thumping of a drum.
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Seth Wenig / AP Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition’
Thirty years ago, the reverend made reparations for slavery core to his presidential campaigns. Now he’s watching as the House grapples with a proposal to study their feasibility.
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Michael Conroy / AP Harvard’s Drastic Decision
The college has rescinded an admissions offer to Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland survivor and conservative activist.
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Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School
At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.
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Kelly Bell / Diego G Diaz / Shutterstock ... How the Democrats Got Radicalized on Student Debt
In just over a decade, Democratic Party leaders have gone from advocating modest increases in Pell grants to pushing for large-scale debt cancellation.
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Clarence Fisher / Ayantee 1970 Yearbook / Ayantee ... The Day the National Guard Raided a Dorm in North Carolina
Violence in the spring of 1969 marred the commencement festivities for that year’s North Carolina A&T graduates. This year, they finally got to celebrate.
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Dmitry Rukhlenko / hdesignflux / Shutterstock / Arsh ... Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
The restaurant’s contest to pay off student loans is the latest offer to treat the idea of debt relief as a sweepstakes that only a lucky few can win.
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Yulia-Images / Getty The Education Scandal That's Bigger Than Varsity Blues
Rich kids are enrolled in college at three times the rate of poor kids.
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Cliff Owen / AP Elizabeth Warren Takes a Different Strategy to Court the Black Vote
The Massachusetts senator is betting big on higher-education funding.
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Chris Kindred The New Secession
Residents of the majority-white southeast corner of Baton Rouge want to make their own city, complete with its own schools, breaking away from the majority-black parts of town.
