What the growing placebo effect shows is not so much the failure of modern medicine as much as the success of the modern production of beliefs.

The decision to permit almost all J-term applicants to stay at Harvard in January is both encouraging and commendable.

The United Nations Security Council has chosen its next five non-permanent members, to begin serving next January in the body ...

The “Harvard bubble” is one of Harvard’s central scholarly benefits at any time of the year, and students should not have to forgo it during their greatest time of academic need.

The American education system needs to innovate—and bring enrichment into the classroom, where it belongs.

It is not for Tufts, or any institution, to regulate when it is appropriate to engage in consensual dorm-room copulation.

While shrinking summer might make fifth graders gasp in horror, it is also could be an important step in revitalizing American public schools.

Not all minorities are poor, and not all poor people are minorities. Proponents of socioeconomic affirmative action do not seem ...

A recent study conducted and released by Princeton sociology professor Thomas Espenshade has unearthed alarming racial disparities in the SAT ...

Although replacing Columbus Day would certainly be a step in the right direction, we hope that the change would inspire a stronger commitment to teaching the true trajectory of American history—a story that begins well before 1607 or, for that matter, 1492.