COVERS SECTION: No Grad Left Behind?: The State of Higher Education in America
Class Conflict: The debate over class-based affirmative action. By Peter Bozzo and Eric Smith.
Dunce Ex Machina: U.S. high schools failing to prepare grads. By Caroline Cox and Kaiyang Huang.
Tenure Tune-Up: Changes needed to modernize tenure. By Eric Hendey and Simon Thompson.
The Public University in the Recession: The UC and new modes of funding. By Aditi Ghai and Ken Liu.
Inflationary Spiral?: Assessing the threat of grade inflation. By Alastair Su.
The Cost of College: Why higher education is still too expensive. By Ioana Calcev.
DREAM Deferred: Failure to pass the DREAM Act highlights partisan gridlock. By Kathy Lee and John He.
Beyond the Liberal Arts: In expanding access to college, don’t forget vocational training. By Luka Oreskovic.
Oh, the Humanities: The struggle over curricular reform, at Harvard and beyond. By Candice Kountz.
The Limits of SAFRA: New reform measures won’t solve the problem of tuition rates. By Lily Ostrer.
The End of the Women’s College?: The decline of single-sex higher education. By Brian Burton.
UNITED STATES
Beyond Cap and Trade: How America can address climate change. By Matthew Bewley and Toni Campbell.
The Republicans’ Dilemma: The midterms leave the GOP facing key decision for 2012. By Alexander Chen.
Do Americans Fear Muslims?: What the Ground Zero mosque taught us. By Neil Patel and Pragya Kakani.
Debating the Census: How we count matters most. By Jeffrey Kalmus and Rajiv Tarigopula.
Crashing the Party: Why the Tea Party makes this midterm different. By John Prince and Arjun Mody.
WORLD
Laboring to Govern: Election plunges Australian politics into uncertainty. By Cindy Hsu.
90 Miles Away and Closing: Policy changes suggest a new openness towards Cuba. By Isabelle Glimcher.
Paul Kagame’s Balancing Act: Rwanda’s reformer faces criticism. By Jimmy Wu and Joshua Lipson.
A World Without Nukes: Addressing regional conflicts is at the heart of disarmament. By Eliza Calihan.
BOOKS & ARTS
Review of Every Man in this Village is a Liar: An Education in War. By Taylor Helgren.
Review of Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post-Western World. By Raul Quintana.
Review of The Korean War: A History. By Henry Shull.
Review of The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. By Paul Mathis.
Review of The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America. By Melanie Guzman.
Review of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. By Skyler Hicks.
INTERVIEWS
Gordon Brown: former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. By Felix de Rosen.
Margaret Spellings: former U.S. Secretary of Education. By Matthew Bewley.
Mark Rudd: former member of Weather Underground and current activist. By Alliance of Collegiate Editors.
Rebiya Kadeer: Uighur rights activist. By Alliance of Collegiate Editors.
ENDPAPER
Beyond Workers and Leaders: Higher education as citizen training ground. By Kenzie Bok.
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