Student accommodations in elite lecture halls are reshaping the ways that privilege manifests in America. At Stanford, 38% of students are registered as disabled. At Harvard and Brown, more than 20% of students are registered as disabled. Better testing and comfort talking about disability has helped spur this rise in ways that reflect social and medical progress, but this statistical anomaly is not just about medicine, it reflects a two-tiered system where we “accommodate” the elite but...

In its heyday, the United States was an industrial powerhouse. Having a job in manufacturing could catapult you into the middle class....

2.3 million people are confined in the United States. Over 1 in 5 of these people have yet to be convicted for the crime(s) for which...