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Kevin Carey
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VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.

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Kevin Carey is an American higher education writer and policy analyst. He serves as Director of the Education Policy Program at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. He writes regularly on education for The Upshot at the New York Times, and is guest editor of the annual Washington Monthly College Guide. He has taught education policy at Johns Hopkins University, and was a monthly columnist for six years at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been described by New York Times Washington columnist David Leonhardt as “one of the sharpest higher education experts out there” and by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews as “the best higher education writer in the country.” .. more

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 27d
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about Trump’s plan to purge Black people from the Ivy League.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda
A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.
www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, but it can’t be said enough.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 2d
As I always remind people when I go on vacation, “We’re not running the national counter-terrorism center.”

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 3d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

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Paul Glastris @glastris.bsky.social · 4d
Elwood Watson of East Tennessee State takes the measure of various college rankings and finds @washingtonmonthly.com to be the best for most students. www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: A different way to rank colleges — Elwood Watson
Commentary: Washington Monthly has published rankings with the intent of avoiding what the most prestigious rankings seek to reward: an institution’s wealth, prestige, and exclusivity.
www.myjournalcourier.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d
No season with "Once More, With Feeling" could be the worst.

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Michael Petrilli @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social · 4d
Hi folks. My round up of views here: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

More next week on the policy implications. (Spoiler alert: I think Texas's Teacher Incentive Allotment is worth emulating.)
The logic behind low teacher salaries
SCHOOLED | Friday, 11/7/25
schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5d
So much I could say, but I’ll just say she convinced her caucus to vote for something they hated and knew they’d lose their jobs over, on the promise that it’d be amended in some unknown way later through reconciliation. Nearly 40 million people have health insurance because of her. 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 5d
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5d
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 6d
I have to admit it’s fun to watch the Trump administration get beaten over the head with Biden v. Nebraska.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6d
The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
The expensive private schools rich people send their kids to are full of moderate-salary teachers in very small classes.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
In 2001, America had the great misfortune of being led by exactly the wrong man at exactly the wrong moment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
There's a common thing where people who are unusually beautiful and talented are kind of empty or blah in person, and then I listen to Rachel Zegler on the Blank Check Podcast and she's somehow also a more insightful film critic than people who do that for a living?

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d
The problem with fooling people into thinking downtown DC is a crime-ridden hellhole is that those same people don't understand which part of the White House you're demolishing.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 9d
Another all timer from @rayratto.bsky.social defector.com/yoshinobu-ya...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto Will Not Be Denied | Defector
The Toronto Blue Jays sent 57 batsmen to the plate in the 25 hours between Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s last pitch of Game 6 of the World Series and his first pitch of Game 7, so it isn’t like they didn’t hav...
defector.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 9d
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
This game is going to be decided by a barely discernible glance off the fair pole

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
Truly fate will decide now

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
A game of millimeters

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
MY GOD

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
Such a treat to watch two great teams trade punches all the way to end.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 9d
Vlad Guerrero is like a ballet dancer out there

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10d
No purer measure of pop culture success than the costumes 2,000 children choose to wear when arriving at your house for candy, and after 15 minutes I’m already calling it for Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 10d
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 11d
There's a very clear, persuasive, evidence-driven case that A.I. is rapidly disrupting college by ruining education. What's the positive counterargument? Is there one?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com