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Politics

Bobby Kennedy Jr., We Know Ye Too Well

If you’re Catholic and of a certain age and grew up inspired by (at least some) of the Kennedys, watching a delusional RFK Jr. join the Trump administration is the final blow


The Monopolized Economy


November/December 2024 Print Edition

November/December 2024

In this issue

The Student Recruitment Industrial Complex

We tend to think about equity in higher education in terms of how colleges treat students who apply. But long before that, a little-known industry called enrollment management decides who gets the glossy brochures and who gets ignored.

The App Always Wins

Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same technologies could be used to protect the addicted, if government would only demand it.

Modi Operandi

A chronicle of the rise of Indian nationalism offers lessons for defeating our own version.

The Tyranny of the Welfare Queen

For decades, the conversation about social services in America has centered on a false and harmful stereotype about who deserves help.

Education


Books

He-e-e-e-re’s Johnny!

He dominated late-night television for 30 years, before our shoutfest era. A new biography of the reclusive Nebraskan is also an elegy for a lost America.


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