Nation & World

How test of college readiness has changed with trends in education policy

Nicholas Stephanopoulos says probably not, but it may make it easier for wealthy donors to bypass individual giving limits

New book traces broad campaign to combat what organizers viewed as takeover of nation’s legal system by forces of ‘radical’ liberalism

Karen Korellis Reuther explains why it’s a problem (dangerous, even) in products, how more inclusive design serves everyone

A flawed first copy — dashed off in all-nighter — endures as template for democracy in action

Everyone sees through your fake cool neighborhood

In new memoir, Lamar Alexander says it used to be just elected officials, voters. Then came rise of more extreme activist groups, worsening polarization.

Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks

Houghton exhibit showcases newspapers, pamphlets, other media, offering on-the-ground view of what regular citizens knew, and when they knew it 

New research suggests increased exposure between groups results in more couplings across class but not racial lines

Sarah Isgur argues growing distrust of justices says more about our tribalism than any change in way judiciary works

Region expert Kenneth Weinstein argues real challenge in Indo-Pacific is economic, not military

Archivist says it’s an early example of ‘long tradition of honoring national leaders’

Schools have made progress in calling it out but need to develop a more forceful response, scholars say

New paper by Cass Sunstein, colleagues finds poor early adherence but also suggests trying to shift social norms, offering incentives could help

Photographer captured daily life as South Koreans transitioned to peace

‘Ordinary men’ were at the heart of genocidal movement as it grew, research says

Video series spotlights schools, communities where economic mobility is top of mind

Conservative and progressive law scholars get together to trade views on SCOTUS legitimacy — and prove a chatbot wrong

Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom

Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler

Exhibit traces University’s role in America’s birth — from campus barracks to Founding Father alumni

Experts assess threat landscape amid war, lapsing treaties, declining faith in U.S. security guarantee

AI and society expert warns new agentic releases to increase odds cybercriminals, hackers will be able to breach secure systems

Election law expert assesses challenges to state authority as parties look ahead to midterms

City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis

Mitt Romney offers critique on nation’s divisiveness, foreign policy, value of hard, thankless work of governing

Philosophy helps us solve ‘big questions that matter,’ argues ‘Justice’ professor as he accepts Berggruen Prize 

Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY

Legal, constitutional scholar suggests looking to judges’ practices for wider lessons