This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

Newshounds and citizens who rely on an independent press should be encouraged by the purchase of the Daily Herald by the Chicago Tribune. There may be life still left in our legacy media. Many of us ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...

Some of Sen. John Fetterman’s Democratic colleagues defended his standing in the party amid reports that Republicans are recruiting him, insisting that he is a “good human” and that detractors should ...

My writing life has changed dramatically in the last year or so — and I’m none too thrilled about it. Oops, scratch that. Let me start over. My writing life has ...

I never thought I would have to write these words, but this is my last column for the Miami Herald. As I write, I think about the 19 years I have let readers know about the good in our South Florida ...

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It’s 3 a.m. and I’m sitting in my cramped dorm room in Perkins Hall, trying to write an opinion column about why Taylor Swift is overrated. The problem is that I don’t know much about Taylor Swift, ...

Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop ...

Themes of academic dread or nerdiness often crop up when writing comes to mind. Until college, I never truly considered the bigger picture: Why do we write, or more aptly, why should we? Even still, ...

AUGUSTA — In 1960, Loran Smith stood behind the 18th green at the Masters as a college student, waiting for Arnold Palmer to putt. Palmer was a stroke away from winning his second of four green ...

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