Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Defenders of the Higher Ed Business: How Lawyers Shield a Broken Industry

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In the long decline of American higher education, a certain class of professionals has quietly prospered—lawyers who specialize in defending...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

How Educated Neoliberals Built the Homelessness Crisis—and Why HUD’s New Cuts Will Make It Worse

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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has quietly announced one of the most drastic federal rollbacks in homelessness policy in...

Why People Under 35 Are Not Afraid of Democratic Socialism

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For Americans under 35, the term “democratic socialism” triggers neither fear nor Cold War reflexes. It represents something far simpler: a ...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Neoliberalism and the Global College Meltdown

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Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has reshaped higher education into a market-driven enterprise, producing what can only be describe...

It’s Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore (The Infographics Show)

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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Epstein, Dershowitz, Summers, and the Long Arc of Elite Impunity

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For many observers, Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, and Larry Summers appear as separate figures orbiting the world of elite academia, fin...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Finally Learned My Limits (Heidi Weber)

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[Editors note: "No Stop" Heidi Weber has been a hero of ours for several years. Her courage fighting corruption at Globe Universit...

Entangled Frontiers: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the UAE, South Sudan, and the Israel-Palestine Arena — Implications for Higher Education, Censorship, and Global Governance

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The global higher education landscape is increasingly shaped by conflicts, diplomacy, and shifting regional alliances. The relationships amo...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Generation Z and the Fractured American Dream: Class Divide, Debt, and the Search for a Future

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For Generation Z, the old story of social mobility—study hard, go to college, work your way up—has lost its certainty. The class divide that...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The College Meltdown Index: Profiting from the Wreckage of American Higher Education

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“Education, once defended as a public good, now functions as a vehicle for private gain.” From Collapse to Contagion The College Meltd...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Examining the Debt and Earnings of “Professional” Programs (Robert Kelchen)

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 [Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Robert Kelchen Blog .]  Robert Kelchen Read on blog  or  Reader Examining the Debt a...