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The new collection at Harvard features more than 120 oral histories recorded by Ronald Williams II for his forthcoming book on this history of TransAfrica, a former foreign policy advocacy organizatio...

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

On Wednesday, September 23, historian Kevin M. Levin will deliver our annual Crozer Lecture. He will discuss his forthcoming book, A Glorious Fate: The

After years of debate, a proposal to embed race in every major remains in limbo.

1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.

Faculty in all positions, staff, and students need to organize across the University around the costs and consequences of austerity, and demand elected representation with authority over how Princeton...

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

Fewer planning careers in academy, nation, and more doubt value of Ph.D. amid policy shifts in funding, international students

Chief Justice John Roberts penned an incomplete, but revealing, tribute to former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

A defining period in U.S. foreign policy has ended, but it remains misunderstood.

Americans have nowhere to go. Nationwide, countless public spaces lack one crucial thing: bathrooms, never mind ones that are safe and functional. Yet in the past, political leaders celebrated the opening of public bathrooms with boisterous press conferences and showy ribbon-cutting ceremonies.

A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands

The anti-woke movement’s “cure” was more intolerance and more repression.

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

We ate 20 breakfast sandwiches (biscuit, croissant, griddle, and English muffin!) to find the best. Our favorites came from Costco, Jimmy Dean, and Kodiak.

Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…

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An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

In the letter, the University of North Carolina system said students can be required to disclose their use of the technology — while not disclosing its own.

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

Several recent denials have raised questions about political influence.