James Williams received his letter last fall. “Dear Professor,” it began. The form letter went on to offer him $4,000 for reviewing an introductory history textbook. “I thought, ‘That’s an interesting ...

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Thomas Bartlett makes several important points in his article (“Selling Out: a Textbook Example,” June 27), but unfortunately he conflates two separate issues. There are, of course, ethical problems ...

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The Stanford University swimmer who got a wrist-slap jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman is now a textbook example of a “rapist.” Brock Turner’s bleary-eyed mug shot and details ...

NEW ORLEANS — It was a textbook example of how not to stop a serial sniper: Police from dozens of agencies, with only a handful of radios for coordination, blazing away at a high-rise downtown hotel ...

Home Depot and Lowe's look similar at first. The deeper we dig, the more hints we find that HD is of higher quality. HD outperformed LOW every single year except 2020 regarding same-store traffic ...

From an underdog priced at a heavy discount, Oracle is now emerging as a leader in the cloud with a stock that is priced accordingly. I show why many investors were falling victims to recency bias and ...

A new year provides new opportunities for higher education governing board members to recommit to their roles as effective fiduciaries. Unfortunately, complacent and ineffective board leadership ...

People were outraged — and rightfully so — after a court convicted Brock Turner of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2016, only to have presiding judge Aaron Persky sentence the former ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation came after more than a week of bad news, starting with a damning report from the state attorney general’s office ...