Friend confirms he leaked Comey memo to NYT
A Columbia University law professor and close friend of former FBI director James Comey has confirmed he leaked contents of one of Comey's memos to The New York Times.
Columbia sidelines wrestling team over racist, sexist group messages
The conversations, in the app GroupMe for the Class of 2017, showed homophobic, racist and misogynistic comments going back as far as 2014, Bwog reported.
What ‘The Wire’ can teach us about storytelling
The award-winning series captivated viewers attracted to its raw realism and connection to the shadowy inner-workings of Baltimore’s gangs, media and government.
What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education
A Columbia University professor has had enough of what he calls a pervasive narrative in urban education: a savior complex that places mostly white teachers in minority classrooms as heroes who "saving" kids.
An independent review of a Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student has found the magazine failed in the “reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking” of the now-discredited story.
With a smartphone and a finger prick, this new device can deliver HIV test results in 15 minutes.
If taught young, self-control skills can have strong protective effects, even helping those whose vulnerabilities might make them more likely to fall behind economically. That's according to Walter Mischel, author of "The Marshmallow Test," in part four of his conversation…
Each of us has our own temptations, says Walter Mischel, author of "The Marshmallow Test." For Mischel, it was smoking. For Clinton, it was junk food. Having the willpower to resist, Mischel explains, requires making the long-term consequences of each…
50 years on, what strides have we made in the war on poverty?…
