DISCIPLINARY CONTENTS

Business/Economics

SAM ADOLPHSEN, Don’t Blame the Government

DENIZ A. BILGUTAY, The High Cost of Cheap Counterfeit Goods [STUDENT ESSAY]

DENIZ A. BILGUTAY, A Powerful Call to Action [STUDENT ESSAY]

KIM BROOKS, Is It Time to Kill the Liberal Arts Degree?

KEVIN CAREY, Fulfill George Washington’s Last Wish—a National University

KEVIN CAREY, The U.S. Should Adopt Income-Based Loans Now

ANTHONY P CARNEVALE AND MICHELLE MELTON, Major Differences: Why Undergraduate Majors Matter

ADAM COHEN, Self-Driving Cars Will Change the Rules of the Road

MARY C. DALY AND LEILA BENGALI, Is It Still Worth Going to College?

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Get It Right on Gas

ERIC HOOVER, College’s Value Goes Deeper Than the Degree

ELIZABETH KOLBERT, Burning Love

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Where Sweatshops Are a Dream

SEAN LENNON, Destroying Precious Land for Gas

DAVID LEONHARDT, Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data say

BRIDGET TERRY LONG, College Is Worth It—some of the Time

REBECCA MACKINNON, Privacy and Facebook

SCOTT MCNALLY, Water Contamination — Fracking Is Not the Problem

CHARLES MURRAY, What’s Wrong with Vocational School?

PEGGY ORENSTEIN, should the World of Toys Be Gender-Free?

CHRISTINA H. PAXSON, The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities

PHARINET, Is College for Everyone?

RAJEEV RAVISANKAR, sweatshop Oppression

SHALE GAS PRODUCTION SUBCOMMITTEE, From Shale Gas Production Subcommittee 90-Day Report

LEE SIEGEL, Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans

ASTRA TAYLOR, A Strike against Student Debt

DANA THOMAS, Terror’s Purse Strings

RICHARD VEDDER, Forgive Student Loans?

LIZ WESTON, When a Two-Year College Degree Pays Off

Child Development

DON AUCOIN, For Some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits

CLYDE HABERMAN, A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health

MADELINE LEVINE, Raising Successful Children

JENNY MCCARTHY, The Gray Area on Vaccines

PEGGY ORENSTEIN, Should the World of Toys Be Gender-Free?

RUSSELL SAUNDERS, Pediatrician: Vaccinate Your Kids—or Get Out of My Office

LENORE SKENAZY, How Kitty Genovese Destroyed Childhood

CHANTEE STEELE, An Argument in Support of the “Gap Year” [STUDENT ESSAY]

VERNON R. WIEHE, Nothing Pretty in Child Pageants

Computer Science

CHRIS BUSTAMANTE, The Risks and Rewards of Online Learning

COLLEGEDEGREESEARCH.NET, The Evolution of Online Schooling [INFOGRAPHIC]

JOHN CRISP, Short Distance Learning

CRAIG DESSON, My Creepy Instagram Map Knows Where I Live

JENNIFER GOLBECK, All Eyes on You

ELENA KADVANY, Online Education Needs Connection

REBECCA MACKINNON, Privacy and Facebook

JONATHAN MAHLER, Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling

RAY MCNULTY, Old Flames and New Beacons

PETE RORABAUGH, Trading Classroom Authority for Online Community

DAVID SMITH, Reliance on Online Materials Hinders Learning Potential for Students

NICHOLAS THOMPSON, Bigger Brother: The Exponential Law of Privacy Loss

USA TODAY EDITORIAL BOARD, Time to Enact “Do Not Track”

Education

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes

DAN ARIELY, Essay Mills: A Coarse Lesson in Cheating

AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, Cheaters Never Win

K. BALIBALOS AND J. GOPALAKRISHNAN, OK or Not?

KIM BROOKS, Is It Time to Kill the Liberal Arts Degree?

DYLAN BYERS, Plagiarism and BuzzFeed’s Achilles’ Heel

MELISSA BURRELL, Colleges Need Honor Codes [STUDENT ESSAY]

CHRIS BUSTAMANTE, The Risks and Rewards of Online Learning

ANTHONY P CARNEVALE AND MICHELLE MELTON, Major Differences: Why Undergraduate Majors Matter

COLLEGEDEGREESEARCH.NET, The Evolution of Online Schooling [INFOGRAPHIC]

JOHN CRISP, Short Distance Learning

LOOS DIALLO, Plagiarism Policy [IMAGE]

SUSAN ENGEL, Teach Your Teachers Well

THOMAS FRANK, Course Corrections

TRIP GABRIEL, Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

LAWRENCE M. HINMAN, How to Fight College Cheating

ALISON HUDSON, Stop Wikipedia Shaming

ELENA KADVANY, Online Education Needs Connection

ZOYA KAHN, Why Cell Phones Do Not Belong in the Classroom [STUDENT ESSAY]

WENDY KAMINER, Progressive Ideas Have Killed Free Speech on Campus

ANDREAS KOLBE, Debunking the “Accurate as Britannica” Myth?

MICHAEL MARTINEZ, Why Citations Do Not Make Wikipedia and Similar Sites Credible

RAY MCNULTY, Old Flames and New Beacons

TIMOTHY MESSER-KRUSE, The “Undue Weight” of Truth on Wikipedia

ELIZABETH MINKEL, Too Hard Not to Cheat in the Internet Age?

CHRIS MUÑOZ, Are Colleges Doing Enough for Nontraditional Students? [STUDENT ESSAY]

KEVIN MURPHY, Evaluation of a Website: RateMyProfessors.com [STUDENT ESSAY]

SCOTT L. NEWSTOK, A Plea for Close Learning

CHRISTINA H. PAXSON, The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities

ERIC POSNER, Universities Are Right to Crack Down on Speech and Behavior

RICHARD A. POSNER, The Truth about Plagiarism

PETE RORABAUGH, Trading Classroom Authority for Online Community

JACK SHAFER, Sidebar: Comparing the Copy

JUDITH SHULEVITZ, In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

DAVID SMITH, Reliance on Online Materials Hinders Learning Potential for Students

RANDALL STROSS, Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source

Term Papers for Sale Advertisement [WEB PAGE]

NIA TUCKSON, Why Foreign-Language Study Should Be Required [STUDENT ESSAY]

NEIL WATERS, Wikiphobia: The Latest in Open Source

Environmental Science

RACHEL CARSON, The Obligation to Endure

THE CRIMSON STAFF, Vote Yes on the Bottled Water Ban

CHARLES FISHMAN, Bottled Water Is Silly — But So Is Banning It

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, Let Them Eat Dog

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Get It Right on Gas

SHAWN HOLTON, Going Green [STUDENT ESSAY]

ELIZABETH KOLBERT, Burning Love

SEAN LENNON, Destroying Precious Land for Gas

SCOTT MCNALLY, Water Contamination — Fracking Is Not the Problem

NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, The Carnivore’s Dilemma

DANIEL PAYNE, Why You Should Eat “Humane” Meat

ANTHONY PRIETO, Get the Lead out of Hunting

WILLIAM SALETAN, Please Do Not Feed the Humans

SHALE GAS PRODUCTION SUBCOMMITTEE, From Shale Gas Production subcommittee 90-Day Report

SUNAURA TAYLOR, Humane Meat? No Such Thing

History

BETTY FRIEDAN, The Importance of Work

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address

GEORGE ORWELL, Politics and the English Language

Overview: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. [BOX]

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

DANIEL SULEIMAN, More Than “Moral Complicity” at Auschwitz

Law / Criminal Justice

OMAR ASHMAWY, Ten Years after 9/11, We’re Still in the Dark

DENIZ A. BILGUTAY, The High Cost of Cheap Counterfeit Goods [STUDENT ESSAY]

ERIN BLAINE, Should Data Posted on Social-Networking Sites Be “Fair Game” for Employers? [STUDENT ESSAY]

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN, Immigration Time-Out

BEN CARSON, Vaccinations Are for the Good of the Nation

ADAM COHEN, Self-Driving Cars Will Change the Rules of the Road

CRAIG DESSON, My Creepy Instagram Map Knows Where I Live

JENNIFER GOLBECK, All Eyes on You

GREG HAMPIKIAN, When May I Shoot a Student?

SAM LAIRD, should Athletes Have Social Media Privacy? One Bill says Yes

REBECCA MACKINNON, Privacy and Facebook

JONATHAN MAHLER, Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling

ERIC POSNER, Universities Are Right to Crack Mown on speech and Behavior

THANE ROSENBAUM, Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free speech?

RUSSELL SAUNDERS, Pediatrician: Vaccinate Your Kids—or Get Out of My Office

JANET D. STEMWEDEL, Saying No to Vaccines

DANIEL SULEIMAN, More Than “Moral Complicity” at Auschwitz

NICHOLAS THOMPSON, Bigger Brother: The Exponential Law of Privacy Loss

USA TODAY EDITORIAL BOARD, Time to Enact “Do Not Track”

MAHESH VIDULA, Individual Rights vs. Public Health: The Vaccination Debate

Medicine/Nursing

BEN CARSON, Vaccinations Are for the Good of the Nation

CLYDE HABERMAN, A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health

JENNY MCCARTHY, The Gray Area on Vaccines

WILLIAM SALETAN, Please Do Not Feed the Humans

RUSSELL SAUNDERS, Pediatrician: Vaccinate Your Kids—or Get Out of My Office

JANET D. STEMWEDEL, Saying No to Vaccines

MAHESH VIDULA, Individual Rights vs. Public Health: The Vaccination Debate

Philosophy

BETTY FRIEDAN, The Importance of Work

PLATO, The Allegory of the Cave

DANIEL SULEIMAN, More Than “Moral Complicity” at Auschwitz

Political Science

SAM ADOLPHSEN, Don’t Blame the Government

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes

JAMES BALDWIN, If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is It?

DENIZ A. BILGUTAY, The High Cost of Cheap Counterfeit Goods [STUDENT ESSAY]

ERIN BLAINE, Should Data Posted on Social-Networking Sites Be “Fair Game” for Employers? [STUDENT ESSAY]

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN, Immigration Time-Out

KEVIN CAREY, Fulfill George Washington’s Last Wish—a National University

KEVIN CAREY, The U.S. Should Adopt Income-Based Loans Now

ANDREW HERMAN, Raise the Drinking Age to Twenty-Five

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

WENDY KAMINER, Progressive Ideas Have Killed Free Speech on Campus

GEORGE ORWELL, Politics and the English Language

ERIC POSNER, Universities Are Right to Crack Down on Speech and Behavior

ELLIE REYNOLDS, Native Americans Have Become a Political Pawn

THANE ROSENBAUM, Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free Speech?

WILLIAM SALETAN, Please Do Not Feed the Humans

ALAN SCHWARZ, A Bid for Guns on Campuses to Deter Rape

JACK SHAKELY, Indian Mascots — You’re Out

JUDITH SHULEVITZ, In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

LEE SIEGEL, Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans

BRETT A. SOKOLOW, How Not to Respond to Virginia Tech — II

SOL STERN, The Unfree Speech Movement

DANIEL SULEIMAN, More Than “Moral Complicity” at Auschwitz

ASTRA TAYLOR, A Strike against Student Debt

RICHARD VEDDER, Forgive Student Loans?

JESUS M. VILLAHERMOSA JR., Guns Don’t Belong in the Hands of Administrators, Professors, or Students

TIMOTHY WHEELER, There’s a Reason They Choose Schools

Psychology

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, Violence in Mass Media

OMAR ASHMAWY, Ten Years after 9/11, We’re Still in the Dark

PAUL BRANDUS, Remembering 9/11: How Safe Are We Today?

KATHERINE CHOI, Response to “When Life Imitates Video” [STUDENT RESPONSE]

LAUREN DAZZARA, Why Gaming Is a Positive Element in Life [INFOGRAPHIC]

BOB ENGELHART, Violent Video Games [CARTOON]

BETTY FRIEDAN, The Importance of Work

JENNIFER GOLBECK, All Eyes on You

GREG HAMPIKIAN, When May I Shoot a Student?

GERARD JONES, Violent Media Is Good for Kids

JOHN LEO, When Life Imitates Video

JOE NOCERA, It’s Hard to Be a Hero

PEGGY ORENSTEIN, Should the World of Toys Be Gender-Free?

PARENTHOOD LIBRARY, Distribution of Language, Sex, and Violence Codes in PG-Rated Movies [CHART]

JONATHAN RAUCH, Be Not Afraid

JESSICA ROBBINS, Don’t Withhold Violent Games

JASON SAVONA, Response to Grand Theft Auto IV [STUDENT RESPONSE]

LENORE SKENAZY, How Kitty Genovese Destroyed Childhood

BRETT A. SOKOLOW, How Not to Respond to Virginia Tech — II

Ways to Die in Children’s Cartoons [CHART]

TIMOTHY WHEELER, There’s a Reason They Choose Schools

Sociology

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, Violence in Mass Media

OMAR ASHMAWY, Ten Years after 9/11, We’re Still in the Dark

DENIZ A. BILGUTAY, A Powerful Call to Action

PAUL BRANDUS, Remembering 9/11: How Safe Are We Today?

KATHERINE CHOI, Response to “When Life Imitates Video” [STUDENT RESPONSE]

TODD DAVIDSON, Media Violence [VISUAL]

AMY DION, Gone but Not Forgotten

EJ GARR, Athlete vs. Role Model

GERARD JONES, Violent Media Is Good for Kids

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Where Sweatshops Are a Dream

JOHN LEO, When Life Imitates Video

PEGGY ORENSTEIN, Should the World of Toys Be Gender-Free?

PARENTHOOD LIBRARY, Distribution of Language, Sex, and Violence Codes in PG-Rated Movies [CHART]

JONATHAN RAUCH, Be Not Afraid

RAJEEV RAVISANKAR, Sweatshop Oppression

JESSICA ROBBINS, Don’t Withhold Violent Games

THANE ROSENBAUM, Should Neo-Nazis Be Allowed Free Speech?

CRYSTAL SANCHEZ, College Should Be for Everyone [STUDENT ESSAY]

BRETT A. SOKOLOW, How Not to Respond to Virginia Tech — II

SOL STERN, The Unfree Speech Movement

DANA THOMAS, Terror’s Purse Strings

NICHOLAS THOMPSON, Bigger Brother: The Exponential Law of Privacy Loss

TIMOTHY WHEELER, There’s a Reason They Choose Schools