Jay Caspian Kang

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost.

On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war.

The network’s experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.

They’ve often been a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they seemed to find something that we’ve lost.

The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.