The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

Biden is in the low 40s, and young voters are disillusioned. There’s one obvious way to reignite a little enthusiasm. Will he take it?

Borrowers are excluded from federal rulemaking committees for having a “conflict of interest,” while conservative-funded think tanks are cited as authorities by a credulous press.

As Covid relief programs are set to expire this fall, millions of people are newly facing eviction and mounting debts. Why pretend the pandemic is over?

How moderates’ fear of the Congressional Budget Office screws students and shrinks ambitious policy, all to protect the fabled “taxpayer”

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

The Democratic Party can’t be mired in intraparty fights about what’s “too far left.” Life as we know it is at stake.

Canceling student debt will prevent irreversible wealth loss in younger Americans. But they’re not the only ones who would benefit.

The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

Millionaires in Congress have long since lost touch with most constituents’ concerns.

The longer Congress refuses to address the student loan crisis, the worse it will get.

What does it mean to be staring down economic collapse for the workers still living in the shadow of the Great Recession?

The Clinton-era avatar of respectable Democratic politics continues to confuse elite opinion with public sentiment.

The senator is struggling to gain traction in the polls, despite releasing a flood of innovative proposals. But she is exactly where she needs to be.

No generation has undergone such meticulous examination in recent years as the millennials. Yet our understanding of them contains a glaring gap.

Colleges do very well under the status quo. And that’s bad for students and our economy.

Free college is paid for by the working class people who don't attend