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A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.

By Scott McLemee

Only 30 percent of high school graduates with autism ever attend a two- or four-year college, but the institutions, not the students, are the problem, Elizabeth and Margaret Finnegan argue.

By Elizabeth Finnegan and Margaret Finnegan

As we begin a new academic year, institutional leaders should engage their campus communities in honest, data-driven conversations about what to do better, argues Bonita J. Brown.

By Bonita J. Brown

Surprised at some of the changes you see on your campus as you return from the summer? David Galef provides a tongue-in-cheek review of what's taken place.

By David Galef

Natasha Baker analyzes the potential impact of the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on graduate assistants' right to unionize at Columbia University.

By Natasha Baker

Joseph G. Ramsey reflects on grad students’ earlier efforts to unionize, arguing that those students who simply accepted low pay and few benefits were helping their own longed-for tenure-track jobs to disappear.

By Joseph G. Ramsey

Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

These three barriers to transfer student completion deserve more attention, argue Davis Jenkins and John Fink.

By Davis Jenkins and John Fink et al.