Contemporary data indicate that, on average across a wide range of schools, A’s represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988.

Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer are professors of history at Princeton University. For decades, Watergate has served as the benchmark against which all other presidential scandals are measured. One ...

David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. In 2001 and 2002, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. It was only ...

Eli Merritt is a San Francisco-based writer and historian as well as a visiting scholar in the Department of History and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University. He is ...

Vanessa Holden is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky. Edward E. Baptist is a professor at Cornell University. These incidents are not historically unusual. What’s new is the outcome, ...

Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She works for Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as editor of Chapter ...

The historic and deliberate exclusion of African Americans from economics has undoubtedly hindered the quest to diminish wealth inequality in the United States. And given the historic ...

Michael E. Jirik is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. The controversy over abolition at Lane Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1834–­1835 was ...

The expression “self-licking ice cream cone” was first used in 1992 to describe a hidebound bureaucracy at NASA. Yet, as an image, it’s even more apt for America’s military-industrial complex, an ...