The government wants to guarantee neutral spaces for learning, but some say they risk dividing students as much as unifying them. […]
Can secular classrooms heal France’s social divisions?
Buzzfeed: Eve Fairbanks on Mark Halperin
“He claimed he knew so much more than we did, and we began to believe it.” […]
New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on Daniel Ellsberg and nuclear war
The whistleblower Nixon and Kissinger once called “the most dangerous man in America” on his new book about America’s close brushes with total destruction. […]
The Nation: Robbie Corey-Boulet on victims of Liberian war crimes
Gruesome new details emerge from a Philadelphia courtroom. […]
Boston Globe: Carol Rose on Anthony Scaramucci
A threat to sue a Tufts graduate student for allegedly defaming him is “plainly mean-spirited.” […]
BBC Radio 4: Jonathan Guyer on Arab Noir
A revolution has been creeping across the Middle East, giving authors and scholars an opportunity to critique imported wars, local autocrats and arrested revolutions. […]
Bloomberg Businessweek: Shannon Sims on the Houston floods
Disputes after Hurricane Harvey may create some of the most expensive litigation ever brought against the federal government. […]
NYT: Shannon Sims on Texas shooting victims
One man mourns the loss of generations he raised after the First Baptist Church shooting. […]
NYT: Shannon Sims on Texas church shooting
Details about the victims of the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. […]
U.S. News & World Report: Hannah Armstrong on the G5 Sahel initiative
A new peacekeeping force faces immense challenges confronting a wave of jihadist violence in West Africa. […]