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The Great College Rip-Off
Why higher education in the U.S. is so expensive, and what students really pay for.
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Ideas 2018
Dispatches from the Aspen Ideas Festival/Spotlight Health
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Human Capital
How technology and globalization are changing what it means to work
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Virginia's Juvenile Justice Reform
The state’s juvenile-detention system has been shrinking for years. Now, there's just one facility left: Bon Air.
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KING
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, his legacy is still being written.
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No Way Out
A jury found Benjamine Spencer guilty. Then a judge found him innocent. He’s still in prison. Does the truth matter?
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Metropolis Now
Technology is transforming city life, for better and worse.
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The Unfree
People forced to work in circumstances beyond their control
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Object Lessons
Articles published in partnership with Object Lessons
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Undark
Articles republished from Undark Magazine
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Quanta
Articles republished from Quanta Magazine
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1968
Revisiting the year that gave rise to modern America
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Aeon
Articles republished from Aeon
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What Makes a Worker?
The possibilities and pitfalls of job training and apprenticeship
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On Craftsmanship
Videos and audio stories about what it means to master a trade
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The Best of 2017
Highlights from the year in culture
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Who Gives?
Philanthropy, wealth, and influence in the 21st century
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A Veteran's View
Perspectives on American life, informed by military service
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Life Up Close
Traveling the world to see microbes, plants, and animals in oceans, grasslands, forests, deserts, the icy poles—and wherever else they may be.
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160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.