Lori Loughlin: From Hallmark Charm to College Scandal Queen Oh, how the mighty fall—or in this case, how the Full House falls. Lori Loughlin, the actress who once warmed our hearts as Aunt Becky, has become the unlikely face of a scandal that’s got everyone from Gen Z to Boomers talking. But why is this…
US News College Rankings: The Annual Olympics of Institutional Narcissism by “Roving Correspondent” (currently filing from a Wi-Fi-enabled yurt in Ulaanbaatar) Every September, like clockwork, American academia straps on its spandex of self-regard and sprints onto the world stage to see who can flex the hardest. The US News & World Report college rankings have…
College Board: The Great American Sorting Hat Goes Global By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, Somewhere Over the Atlantic If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Kafka and Milton Friedman co-designed a dating app for 17-year-olds, look no further than the College Board: a 123-year-old non-profit whose primary export is anxiety, laminated in…
