Colleges face a reckoning: Is a degree really necessary?
Many states embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if they reached a limit.
Day: October 25, 2025
A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right’s campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
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A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right’s campaign against it — Larry Sanger’s long-standing claims of …
Labour’s new deputy leader says party must pay more heed to its members
Exclusive: Lucy Powell, who was sacked as Commons leader by Starmer in September, says government should stop trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’Labour’s new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said the government must listen to its members instead of being guid…
Explained: Why Donald Trump wants to tear down the East Wing of the White House
Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing for a ballroom is interpreted as a performance of dominance, replacing democratic symbolism with personal grandeur. This act signifies a political shift from process to spectacle, where impulsive p…
Royal Navy vessel escorts Spanish vessel from Gibraltar
The Royal Navy’s HMS Dagger has shadowed a Spanish Navy vessel, SPS Isla de León, as it departed British Gibraltar Territorial Waters.
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Ontario premier’s Reagan ad rekindles tensions with Trump
The premier of Canada’s mostpopulous province has again complicated the country’s delicate trade negotiations with the US, this time with a political ad targeting Americans that has drawn the ire of US President Donald Trump. The ad, commissioned by D…
Many Gazans still unable to return home despite ceasefire
His house in Gaza was destroyed by the war, but Hani Abu Omar still dreams of returning now that a ceasefire has taken hold. However, like thousands of others, the 42-year-old Palestinian remains stuck in a tent with his family because it is too dange…
Voters in Ivory Coast cast ballots to elect new leader
Voters in Ivory Coast cast ballots Saturday to elect a new leader as longtime President Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term, while his key contenders were barred from the race. The election is the latest example of aging men continuing to hold power…
A bomb in Gaza’s rubble badly wounds six-year-old twins who thought it was a toy
The children had been playing near their damaged home when they discovered a round object