Despite the high-profile debate over the merits of for-profits, little is known about how these institutions differ from traditional schools. In "Crossing to the Dark Side? An Interview-Based Comparison of Traditional and For-Profit Higher Education," education expert Ben Wildavsky of the Kauffman Foundation interviews leaders from both sectors to take a closer look at the differences.

On March 23, 2010, after a heated battle on the Hill, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. In spring 2012, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not Obama's healthcare reform is constitutional.

The observations and experiences of interviewees who have worked in both for-profit and not-for-profit higher education suggest that traditional colleges and universities will be badly mistaken if they assume that the travails of for-profits today mean that useful lessons cannot be drawn from their successes to date—and those likely to occur in the future.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

The U.S. debt ceiling must certainly be raised. In all likelihood, it will be lifted sometime before the critical hour. But at home and abroad, there is disbelief that such an easy problem cannot be dispensed with more quickly.

President Obama's Oval Office address last week will send the message to America's enemies that America is withdrawing and refocusing on domestic issues, suggesting that their strategy to defeat America is working.

Officials charged with safeguarding school dollars should get wise to the greedheads.

President Obama's decision not to deploy antiballistic missile defense assets in Poland and the Czech Republic is unambiguously wrong.