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Courtesy of Melissa Harris-Perry What Melissa Harris-Perry Learned From Maya Angelou About Mentorship
The politics professor and former TV-show host talks about creating a dynamic that combines empathy, vulnerability, and fun.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters How Princeton Is Trying to Get More Women to Be Student Leaders
A committee the university formed had one main recommendation: more mentorship.
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Eric Risberg / AP What One Entrepreneur Learned From Hillary Clinton
Reshma Saujani is passing on the guidance she received while helping girls break into a male-dominated field.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Post-College Therapy Void
Mental-health resources are proliferating on campuses, but after graduation, students who relied on counseling face a trying transition.
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John Locher / AP Yoga Teachers, Mentors, Business Partners
The co-owners of a studio in Washington, D.C., reflect on how their dynamic has evolved over the years.
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Elaine Thompson / AP How the 'Tiger Mom' Convinced the Author of Hillbilly Elegy to Write His Story
When J.D. Vance was in law school, his mentor, Amy Chua, gave him the confidence to take a different path.
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Chris Helgren / Reuters Acclimating to a New Country When Your Home Is a War Zone
When Aya Aljamili came to the U.S., her long-distance mentor played a crucial role in helping her navigate daily life.
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Bob Child / AP How Donald Trump Changed Yale
According to some observers, the university announced it would update the name of Calhoun College to appease its liberal community members and distance itself from the president.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters The Ivy League's Gender Pay-Gap Problem
Female alumni make 30 percent less, on average, than their male counterparts.
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Chitose Suzuki / AP How the LSAT Destroys Socioeconomic Diversity
The Logic Games section forces test takers to master a new type of thinking—and that knowledge is not cheap.
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AP Photo When Helping Rape Victims Hurts a College’s Reputation
Better support services can encourage more students to speak out—and that increases the number of reported assaults on campus.
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Parinda Wanitwat How Sugar Daddies Are Financing College Education
The popular website Seeking Arrangement sets up "mutually beneficial relationships" between wealthy older men and young female students. What the site doesn’t talk about is sex.
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AP File Photo The Rise of the Single Dad
More than 2.6 million households in America are headed by a single father.
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5150fantast/Flickr Two Ways to Fix How Colleges Respond to Sexual Assault
Improve the hearing process, and let victims speak with peer counselors they can trust
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kidoki/Flickr Lots of College Freshmen Are About to Dump Their High-School Sweethearts
Thanksgiving break is here, which means it's time for the "Turkey Drop."
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AP A History of the Civil Rights Movement, as Told by Its Pioneers
From the archives: essays written by Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois.
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evmaiden/flickr How to Encourage More College Sexual Assault Victims to Speak Up
Schools should promise strong punishments for assailants and offer victims a voice in the process.
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AP The Elvis Presley Recording That Elvis Himself Never Heard
In 1994, The Atlantic published a tribute to Presley and his version of "Don't Be Cruel," which combined the styles of his influences with his enthusiastic personality.
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'Less Costly Struggle and Bloodshed': The Atlantic Defends Hiroshima in 1946
Two excerpts from the archives explain how the U.S. government justified its decision to drop the bomb.
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A Tale of Two Marilyns
Fifty-one years after Marilyn Monroe's death, revisiting two Atlantic pieces showing the complexity of an icon
