In response to the COVID pandemic, the Department of Education stopped garnishing the Social Security checks of elderly student-loan default...

 Forty million student debtors are waiting anxiously for President Biden's loan forgiveness plan to kick in. Biden wants to knock off $1...

Years ago, I traveled through central Uganda in a Land Rover, accompanied by a native guide. As we came around a curve in the road, we surpr...

I read Shakespeare's  Macbeth as a high school student, and I still remember one line from that play: I am in blood stepped in so far, ...

 About six months ago, I received a letter from the Social Security Administration informing me that it had miscalculated the amount of my m...

Some famous guy once said that people are prone to see the speck in another person's eye while ignoring the log in their own eye. That o...

Let me begin by saying I recognized global warning a long time ago--before Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born. I lived in Alask...

Betsy DeVos, President Trump's Secretary of Education, gave a speech a few days ago in which she candidly acknowledged that the federal...

As reported by Steve Rhode , Congress passed a very modest student-loan reform bill late last year.  Titled the Stop Taxing Death and Disabi...

James Howard Kunstler posted an essay a few days ago containing his predictions for American higher education in the coming year. He predic...

Congress is more divided along partisan lines than any time since Representative Preston Brooks caned Senator Charles Sumner on the floor o...

A tax bill passed the House of Representatives a few days ago, and Republican congresspeople went out of their way to show contempt for Am...

Betsy DeVos should resign as Secretary of Education in the Trump administration. I say this for two reasons: First, Ms. DeVos is too nice ...

Michael Duplessis , age 34, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing a toolbox from Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Amant, Louisi...

A few moments ago, I watched a video showing protesters blocking Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from entering a public school--a schoo...

Any excuse for a slumber party, right? Yesterday, Democrats kept the Senate in session all night to register their opposition to Betsy DeV...

Last week I posted a blog about Bruner-Halteman v. ECMC , which was decided last April. In that case, a Texas bankruptcy judge awarded punit...

At the conclusion of Betsy DeVos's Senate hearing last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren refused to shake DeVos's hand . If this is a s...