| Campus Politics By Sarah Brown The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a champion of First Amendment rights, has gained new prominence as campus controversies spread. Yet FIRE has also found itself in the cross hairs of increasingly fraught debates. |
| Science By Paul Basken Attempts to replicate high-profile scientific studies can be a valuable way to hold scholarly feet to the fire. But some scientists worry that those efforts could be exploited by skeptical lawmakers. |
| Students By Katherine Mangan The main obstacle is not the 30-foot-tall wall that the president wants to build on the Mexican border. It’s his plan to scale back a host of programs that help the university’s impoverished enrollment. |
| Research By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz A professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has examined whether spoilers enhance or diminish readers’ or viewers’ enjoyment. Spoiler alert: The research is inconclusive. |
| The Chronicle Review By Robert Boyers Open society ends at the campus gates. Watch what you say — and what you think. |
| Lingua Franca Allan Metcalf calls for a celebration this Thursday of the American linguistic invention heard round the world. |
| First Person By Devoney Looser It turns out that online instruction is a feminist issue. |
| Vitae By Rebecca Schuman Revisiting a 2009 murder to grasp why graduate students understood the killer’s motivations. |
