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The College Graduate as Collateral

Investors could finance students’ education with equity, not debt. In exchange, investors would receive a fraction of students’ future income.

Walter Green
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Hugs From Iran

A road trip across Iran finds unexpected warmth for Americans. comment icon Comment

Opinionator

When Enough Is Enough

Is there something going on beneath the surface in a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a sewer assessment in a suburb of Indianapolis?

Editorial

Mr. Dimon on the Hill

Even as Mr. Dimon admits to the greed and hubris of big banks, he is still resisting needed regulations, and lawmakers are still giving him a pass. comment icon Comment

Op-Ed Contributor

Give Obama Elbow Room on Iran

Washington needs to change its negotiation strategy in next week’s nuclear talks with Iran.

Did Any Good Come of Watergate?
Room for Debate

Did Any Good Come of Watergate?

Watergate inspired calls for regulating political fund-raising, ethical codes and aggressive journalism, as well as scorn for secrecy and surveillance. Have those notions survived?

Op-Ed Contributor

How Drones Help Al Qaeda

In Yemen, civilian deaths are turning potential American allies into enemies.

Op-Ed Contributor

This Separate Isle

The United Kingdom’s decision not to join the euro zone turned out to be prescient.

Campaign Stops

Equal Rights, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church

What can Mormons Building Bridges, who marched in solidarity at the Salt Lake City gay pride parade earlier this month, learn from the history of Mormons for E.R.A.?

Editorial

The Court Retreats on Habeas

In rejecting the appeals of Guantánamo detainees that challenge the legality of their imprisonment, the justices are denying the prisoners a basic right.

Opinionator

Things I Saw — No. 15

The artist draws things he saw in New York.

Editorial

Drilling in New York

Governor Cuomo’s preliminary blueprint for hydraulic fracturing appears to be on the right track. But many important issues must still be addressed and tough, detailed regulations issued.

Editorial Notebook

We Who Are Left When a Generation Passes

It is easy to feel how tangible a generation really is after it is gone.

Opinionator | Disunion

Jeb Stuart’s Wild Ride

A brash young general embarrasses the Union Army with one of the Civil War’s boldest cavalry maneuvers.

Frank Bruni's Blog

Jeb Bush’s Candor

Florida’s former governor can look skeptically at his party only because he’s on the sidelines and not in the fray.

Op-Docs

‘The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk’

A short documentary film on New York’s stop-and-frisk policing focuses on Tyquan, a young man in Brooklyn who says he was stopped more than 60 times before age 18. comment icon Comment

Opinionator

Stone Links: Addiction and Agency

In this week's links: theories of addiction; Rorty's legacy; Darwin's literary ambitions, and more

Taking Note

Uncertainty and Health Insurance Reform

Republicans love to kvetch about “uncertainty,” except when they’re causing it.

Latitude

Music for the Masses

Classical music in Palestinian society is no longer the reserve of the privileged classes.

Opinionator | Draft

The Sound of a Sentence

Language can be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody.

Letters

The Problems With Stop-and-Frisk

Readers discuss the New York Police Department policy.

Letter

When the Music Soars on Gossamer Wings

Becca Stadtlander

A music school dean says cheering at a classical concert isn’t the way to go.

Letter

Mormon and Christian

Responding to an Op-Ed article, a Mormon writes that he considers himself a Christian.

Letter

Military Suicides

The president of UMDNJ-University Behavioral HealthCare says peer-to-peer counseling has proved effective.

Letter

Time to Unplug

A reader says we should take the time to be where we are.

Taking Note

Big Government

Does the federal government have a duty to use its economic power in times of hardship to help states keep teachers on the job?

Taking Note

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