Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire College — a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts — announced it will shut down after the fall 2026 semester. Founded in 1965 to “reimagine liberal arts education,” Hampshire counts documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and actors Lupita Nyong’o and Liev Schreiber among its most notable alumni. […]

Not everybody acquiesced when Jeffrey Epstein came bearing gifts. Harvard University barred Epstein’s donations after he pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in 2008, a development that frustrated his friends on the faculty, according to an internal review. One physicist, a woman whom Epstein had bragged about and racially misprofiled in an interview that […]

On April 15, a federal jury found that Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly, overcharging fans and shutting out competition. After years of complaints and lawsuits, as well as the fallout from the 2022 Taylor Swift Eras Tour ticket sale controversy, the states took the case to trial and won. So […]

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After a historic victory last fall, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked 100 days in office earlier this month. So far, it’s going pretty well: His approval numbers are broadly positive, he’s begun to deliver on some of his key campaign promises, and he weathered his first major challenge as mayor after NYC endured […]