The Atlantic | Features research by Claudine Gay, Jennifer Hochschild, and Ariel R. White (Ph.D. candidate in Government) and by Jennifer Hochschild and Vesla M. Weaver (Ph.D. '07) of Yale University.
The New Yorker | Michael Javen Fortner's (Ph.D. '10) new book, Black Silent Majority, is discussed in relation to the arguments of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, and Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow.
The New York Times | Discusses new analysis by Adam Looney (Ph.D. '04, now U.S. Treasury Dept) and Constantine Yannelis (Stanford University), which shows how changes in the characteristics of student loan borrowers and the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults.