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Articles by Department: Forum

Disrupting Harvard?

Will new technologies and new academic models upend elite selective schools?
6.16.11

Time to Electrify

Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change
6.16.11

In the Wake of War

Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
8.19.10

Forum: On Caregiving

A scholar experiences the moral acts that come before—and go beyond—modern medicine.
7.1.10

The Pay Problem

Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation
5.1.10

The Ph.D. Problem

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal
11.1.09

Reopening the Doors to College

The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
3.1.09

Greening China

Market-based policies for air-pollution control
9.1.08

Making Credit Safer

It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to…
5.1.08

Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate

The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, rational, and—above all—honest policy to guide its energy future, a policy…
3.1.08