Why is North Carolina still celebrating a historic event that almost certainly never happened? When does history become faith, not facts?

Can we teach the next generation to think through big political challenges without hating each other? Maybe. One class at a time.

Can we teach the next generation to think through big political challenges without hating each other? Maybe. One class at a time.

At a time of unprecedented divide, what a 5 foot wig-wearing woman can teach us about coming together….

Looking for a big hairy audacious problem to solve? Try figuring out how to get 2 million different people just the right kind of higher education. You have 7 years….

Admitting more economically-diverse students to American colleges and universities isn’t just the right thing to do; it could help schools solve some scary problems they face.

A group of scholars and writers from across the country is trying to defuse a tricky debate about free speech on American college campuses.

Old efforts to ban speakers from campus are coming back in a new form — and the threats come from the right and the left.

Most Americans are not rabid partisans. But it is hard for them to find politicians who sound like them.