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For proof, see the demoralizing report released this week by Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation on the state of financial aid in higher ed. It documents the obscene prices some of the poorest undergraduates are asked to pay at hundreds of ...

As Columbia professor Tim Wu recently argued in The New Republic, "The unfortunate fact is that extreme abundance--like extreme scarcity, but in different ways--can make humans miserable." There were so many options for getting from Point A to Point B, ...

... to come and still have money left over. Those additional revenues could be used to expand Social Security benefits through a guaranteed, fixed pension, as recommended by Michael Lind, Joshua Freeman, and Steven Hill of the New America Foundation.

In May 2011, New York's Gabriel Sherman reported that two months earlier, Ailes was trying to figure out "how to stage-manage Beck's departure from Fox," given that talks were "simultaneously a negotiation and a therapy session." Beck had said he didn ...

There are also some practical logistical questions to answer - including the definition of "high quality" that preschool providers would have to meet in order to qualify for the funds. (The New America Foundation has some of the details here, and it ...

As Jason Delisle of New America (a proponent of the fair value approach) argued last November, if you take leading, non-partisan finance experts as a litmus test, the answer is pretty clear: Even if it is Republican lawmakers who have taken up the ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter nodded approvingly in her essay on The Atlantic last week. Men, she said can be great at domestic tasks; there's no need to overpraise them, or grade on a curve. But while Slaughter pays lip-service to Villano's thesis, the bulk of ...