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Ever since the public debut of ChatGPT in 2023, some thoughtful proposals have been offered for using oral examinations to ...

Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Charles Q. Brown says asking the military to solve political problems risks undermining the institution itself.

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Some students are still mentioning their race or immigrant status as the Trump administration cracks down on diversity efforts. But many are avoiding sensitive aspects of their identity. By Bernard ...

Ashley Tisdale didn’t stick to the status quo when she exposed her mom group as “toxic” and “mean” in a scathing essay for The Cut. In the viral January 2026 piece, the actress wrote about ditching ...

A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave after giving a student a failing grade for rejecting the notion that someone’s identity can fall outside of the two genders ...

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...