This is constantly happening with software, and now it’s happening with college textbooks. The cost of textbooks has risen steeply over the last 20 years, and according to the infographic below, ...

Paul Tough is a contributing writer for the magazine and the author, most recently, of the book “The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us.” He first wrote about higher education for the ...

The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the kinds of extracurricular support parents owe their college-bound children. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My daughter, currently a junior in high ...