A graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma who gave a student a zero on an essay citing the Bible will no longer be teaching at the school. “Based on an examination of the graduate ...

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This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store. E arlier this year Ohio State University announced an AI Fluency program, ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

In the world of fat activism, the “O-words”—overweight and obesity—are expressly verboten. That’s because advocates and “fat studies” scholars want to destigmatize and accommodate fatness—their ...

Deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., is the wrong solution to a perceived crime problem. Military forces are unsuited for law enforcement and can easily make the ...

There’s nothing more reckless than exploiting a vulnerable population for political or personal gain. But that’s exactly what some entities are doing in the debate over New York’s Consumer-Directed ...

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will get more homeless people off the streets. The order has some good parts to it, including additional support for mental health ...

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez listens to testimony from OMB Director Russell Vought during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on June 4, 2025. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ...

A while back, I wrote a book about Harvard Business School and entrepreneurship. I started by interviewing a small group of professors, and three things we discussed stuck with me: Let’s talk about ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...