Eyal Press

In a new book, Matthew Desmond argues that to understand what keeps people poor, we need to take a good look at the rich.

Private companies that run prisons and treatment centers for juveniles have turned out not to be very good at making money or rehabilitating kids

The story of a professor forced, because of his views on Bobby Knight, to act like a marked man

Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education—disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies