How America built a caste system that protects wealth by weaponizing color.

If we’re addressing shared root causes, we’re going to be able to stop the Whac-A-Mole medicine that’s not working for us.” Means, who is Trump’s surgeon-general nominee, says “reactive sick care” ...

The artist, whose exhibit at the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale dives deep into the lives of migrant brick kiln workers, on ...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by senior Congress leader K.C. Venugopal, at its meeting on Monday (February 9, 2026) castigated the government for what it described as a “caste system” in ...

AN age-old evil that haunts Indian society, a decade long and partial move to ameliorate some of its effects in higher education, a new set of regulations and a fierce, almost orchestrated reaction ...

A new UNC System definition of “academic freedom” received unanimous approval from the system’s Board of Governors university governance committee on Wednesday, impacting the state’s 17 public ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. UNC board will vote in February on a new academic freedom definition for the system. Draft limits freedom by excluding unrelated ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The reason I start with Newport’s AI writing in a discussion about his latest (excellent) book ...

Bernard Cohn, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and a pioneering scholar of the British colonial period of India, died Tuesday, Nov. 25, in his Hyde Park home. He was 75. “Barney Cohn was interested ...

David Brooks’ call for disrupting the caste system (“Reforms need to overcome the new segregation” Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 22) will be even more difficult after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

A uniform definition of UPFs is a double-edged sword: While a federal standard could bring clarity to fragmented state-by-state definitions, it might also cause significant disruption across the ...