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University of California
December 8, 2022
Tracy Rosenthal
The University of California Is Also a Landlord
If McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that sells degrees. Grad students are striking not least so they can afford to live where they work.
November 15, 2022
Timothy Noah
Don’t Laugh: The Striking U.C. Grad Students Have a Strong Case
OK, it’s not the coal mines. But you try getting by paying 60 percent of your income in rent.
June 8, 2020
Benjamin Franta
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.
December 8, 2012
Jeffrey Rosen
The Data Plan
November 9, 2012
Marc Tracy
Meet the Corgi Who Helped California Raise Taxes
October 24, 2012
Maurice Possley
California Voters Get a New Reason to Abolish the Death Penalty
June 1, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
The New Jobs Report: Ooof
May 19, 2012
Eric Wen
Can the Romney Campaign Co-opt the Ron Paul Movement? Fat Chance
May 18, 2012
Jonathan Rothwell
The Metropolitan Nature of IPOs
April 17, 2012
Kevin Carey
Why Are Community Colleges Being Treated Worst When They’re Needed Most?
March 13, 2012
Kevin Carey
The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak
October 7, 2011
John McWhorter
Why No One Is Right in California’s Affirmative Action Debate
August 19, 2011
Jonathan Chait
In Which I Try To Restrain My Nasty Impulses, With Limited Success
July 13, 2011
Evgeny Morozov
Don't Be Evil
June 23, 2011
Michael Lewis
A Good Joke Spoiled
June 4, 2011
Bradford Plumer
The Wages of Sin
April 15, 2011
Michael Fitzgerald
Coachella: Great Music, Terrible Air
April 5, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Incoherent Case For Paying Student-Athletes
March 17, 2011
Benny Morris
The Liar as Hero
January 4, 2011
Jed Perl
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