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World
After Students Targeted Jewish Teacher, Officials Try to Quell Outrage
The New York schools chancellor promised disciplinary action but also called for understanding students’ viewpoint after a Queens high school protest targeted a pro-Israel teacher.
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Magazine
Where Can You Go to Grad School Without Going to Grad School?
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research offers adult learners an education opportunity at a fraction of the time and price of graduate school.
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World
College Student, Single Mom
I started my senior year at the University of Montana in 2013 when I was almost 35 years old. My belief, my near expectation, was that a diploma, a piece of paper, could offer me a full-time job with benefits like health insurance and sick days ...
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World
If Everyone Gets an A, No One Gets an A
What is an “A,” anyway? Does it mean that a 16 year-old recognizes 96 percent of the allusions in “The Bluest Eye”? Or that she could tell you 95 percent of the reasons the Teapot Dome Scandal was so important? Or, just that she made it to most ...
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World
Are the Elite Anti-Trumpers the ‘Bad Guys’?
Readers react to David Brooks’s suggestion that the elite are partly to blame for Trumpism.
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Business
Cars as Far as the Eye Can See
Around North America and Europe, concours will be showing off classic automobiles all year.
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World
I’m in High School. I Hope Affirmative Action Is Rejected and Replaced With Something Stronger.
The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Its ruling will be of particular interest to my class — high school juniors who would be the first affected by a change in admissions policies. Like ...
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World
Conservative Media Has an Audience Problem
In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the divergent intellectual climates in journalism and academia, but mostly left conservative media out of the discussion. Now we have a new YouGov survey on public trust in media that provides an opening to ...
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Arts
Chase Stokes Turned Down ‘Outer Banks.’ He’s Glad He Reconsidered.
The actor plays John B. in the hit Netflix drama, which returns for its third season on Thursday.
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World
Three Booms. A Masked, Armed Man. How Horror Unfolded in a Michigan State Classroom.
A professor recalls: “It looked like a robot, not someone human, covered with a mask and a cap.”