College students who cultivate the habits of discourse and debate will have an edge.

The two-time Oprah's Book Club author reflects on first love, hard-won wisdom, the pressure of following ‘Demon Copperhead,’ and why she feels she's finally in her creative prime.

The state’s own data shows an increasing number of oil and gas industry jobs have been going to nonresidents. The U.S. Senate election in Alaska signals another red state on the brink of flipping blue ...

If ever someone met the definition of "immersed in their profession" it is Chuck Chappell, 84, who spent roughly half his ...

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The natural conclusion is that as China’s population shrinks, competition for jobs and resources should ease. Yet unemployment has not. Instead, youth unemployment has risen. In July, the unemployment ...

In college, he studied journalism, earning both a B.S. and an M.S. in that subject. A conscientious objector, between 1972 and 1974 Martin worked for VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) for the ...

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Poet Jaydeep Sarangi also sustains the marginal voices and their subjective histories that modernity’s enlightenment project tends to disregard.

In years gone by, we said that students went to college to gather knowledge. Now, college is appropriately expected to be much more about building wisdom. The expectations of prospective students and ...

as classical literature in unecclesiastical Latin and in ancient Greek, its semitic surfboads still secularly wave-worthy, when knowledge of the Hebrew Bible’s ancient language is than theirs less ...