Adam Harris
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.
-
![]()
Alexis Joy Hagestad / The Atlantic Montana’s Black Mayor
Wilmot Collins fled a civil war in Liberia with big ideas about what America can be. But can it ever live up to what he imagined?
-
![]()
Christopher Capozziello / NYT / Redux Why Yale Law School Left the U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Dean Heather Gerken says it’s her belief that “this is not where students should get their information from.”
-
![]()
Quality Sport Images / Getty The Wizardry of South Korea’s Win
The team’s advancement to the World Cup round of 16 is poised to shape an entire generation of South Korean soccer.
-
![]()
Tim Nwachukwu / Getty American Soccer Comes of Age
After decades of playing catch-up, the U.S. men’s team finally emerges as a World Cup contender.
-
![]()
Daniel Steinle / Reuters Mandela Barnes’s Last Punch
The Democratic candidate hasn’t found a way to respond to Senator Ron Johnson’s attacks on crime, and is foundering in the polls as a result.
-
![]()
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Justice Jackson’s Crucial Argument About Affirmative Action
The Court’s newest member wanted to know what fairness looks like if you take race out of the equation.
-
![]()
Tristan Spinski / NYT / Redux; The Atlantic The College-Admissions Merit Myth
The system is not about lining people up from best to worst and taking the top ones. It’s more like a lottery, says the sociologist Natasha Warikoo.
-
![]()
Bill Clark / Getty The Val Demings Gamble
Can the Florida congresswoman inherit Joe Biden’s Democratic Party?
-
![]()
Erica Lansner / Redux Biden’s Cancellation of Billions in Debt Won’t Solve the Larger Problem
Belatedly canceling some debt is what a country does when it refuses to support students up front.
-
![]()
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
-
![]()
Darren McCollester / Getty The Supreme Court’s Next Targets
The conservative majority is likely to overturn major precedents this term—not just Roe.
-
![]()
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?
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
Illustration by Dakarai Akil; images by H. Armstrong … This Is the End of Affirmative Action
What are we going to do about it?
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
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.
-
![]()
Steve Liss / CSA Images / Getty / … The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession
How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach
