Why the Ivy League is Rethinking ROTC

The controversy flared up again this fall when both Presidential candidates endorsed ROTC. Here's why the debate is different than it was in the '60s.

Obama: The Long-Lost Negatives

It was announced this morning: Barack Obama is TIME's Person of the Year 2008. Here is a story I wrote about the photographer behind a series of 36 images of Obama as a college freshman that have never been published before. She was a junior at Occidental College when he was a freshman. Here are the pix, and you can see the story and the photos together in the print mag.

College Credit Crunch 101

For this week's issue, a colleague and I wrote a story about how colleges are grappling with the effects of the financial crisis, through the lens of a small Wisconsin liberal arts school.

Top 10 Underreported News Stories of 2008

This week was our annual List Issue. Here's the one I did; my favorite is probably the fact that the U.S. shipped 6,700 tons of radioactive sand from Kuwait to Boise. What a good use of gas...

"Speed Dating for Churches" in the Shenandoah Valley

Last month I spent the day with students and professors at Shenandoah University who were visiting a monastery as part of a 10-week "religious road trip" to help the students find a spiritual home. Here's the piece I wrote about it for the mag a couple weeks ago.