Caroline Kitchener
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Reed Saxon / Reuters Why Are American Colleges So Ridiculously Expensive?
The Masthead investigates.
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Gregory Shamus / Getty The Moral Catastrophe at Michigan State
A new lawsuit accuses a current MSU trustee of helping the university conceal Larry Nassar’s abuses starting in 1992. And this is just one of the institution’s many recent scandals.
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Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images Found: The One Article You Should Read Right Now
The winner of the Masthead Longreads Bracket is …
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual-Assault Policy
How a hypothetical accusation could actually play out in practice, if the Education Department’s proposed rules become law
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Tim Chong / Reuters Wanted: The One Story Everyone Should Read
The Masthead is starting a competition to find this summer’s best longread.
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How the Song of the Summer Is Changing
2018’s race for the song of the summer makes clear just how profoundly the center of popular music has shifted.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Let’s Debate Universal Basic Income in the U.S.
What’s your stance on the government giving people money?
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Heribert Proepper / AP What We’re Reading This Summer
Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
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Richard Vogel / AP The Case Against Abolishing ICE
Fixing the agency only requires going back a few years in its history.
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Shutterstock Paid Leave From Work Can Help Domestic-Violence Victims Leave Abusers
Sixty percent of victims lost their jobs as a direct result of their abuse.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
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Caroline Kitchener / The Atlantic When Catholic Priests Dissented
Fifty years ago, a group of priests decided to fight for birth control.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Black Box at the Heart of American Foreign Policy
What did Trump tell Putin in Helsinki? The answer doesn’t matter all that much.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Behind the School Integration Arms Race
Schools are resegregating, and there’s no appetite to aggressively police them.
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Heritage Images / Getty Why Don’t More Men Take Their Wives’ Last Names?
The vast majority of U.S. adults think a woman should give up her maiden name when she gets married.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters What Makes Us Move, What Makes Us Stay
The privilege of being able to seek a home and the pleasures of making a home in a place you’ve been given
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Petros Giannakouris / AP What Are the New Questions of Philosophy?
2018, in trending philosophical topics.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters How the Problems of the U.S.-Mexico Border Grew and Grew
“The United States has not dealt fairly with Mexico.”
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Can Labor Unions Bounce Back After Janus?
“Unions are going to be forced to go to the gym.”
