Higher Ed, Research & Learning
In today’s Weekend Press: Farewell to Gloria Steinem. How Socrates saved Natan Sharansky’s life. Two drinks with the man who handed out $7 billion to the families of 9/11 victims. And more!
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Remote learning during the pandemic was a nightmare for some students, but others have stuck with it, new data shows. Just over 600,000 public school students attended fully virtual schools in the 202...
Kenneth Feinberg doled out $7 billion to 5,300 victims’ families. The trick, he told Joe Nocera, was listening to the heartache.
9/5/1922: Justice George Sutherland takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Wednesday to work on pathways for students to earn bachelor’s degrees in three years. Such a program could have college stude...
I spent 16 months in a KGB prison that housed the most extensive library of classic literature I encountered in the USSR. There, Plato helped me keep my inner freedom, writes Natan Sharansky.
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Phyllis Chesler knew the feminist activist for more than half a century. Today, she remembers their friendship, collaborations, and disagreements—and the movement they helped build.
It was only after I retired that I was finally able to devote myself to what I wanted to do all along: learn for the sake of learning. It has been exhilarating, writes Richard Mass.
I’m a psychiatrist, and I believe psychosis drove Lindsay Clancy to kill her children. After seven days of deliberation, the jury deadlocked. If she is retried, she should not be found criminally resp...
From Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) today in Combs v. Mitchell: Plaintiff Sean Combs is a well-known musician who uses the… The post Sean Combs (P. Diddy)'s Defamation Suit Can Go Forward (Including Aga...
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A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences.
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Over the past decade, many legal challenges have turned on whether a particular position is an "officer of the United… The post Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers of the United ...
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President Donald Trump on the left, California Governor Gavin Newsom on the right