| By Paul A. Kramer To counter autocracy, question inevitability and practice empathy. |
| Special Reports Photographs by Ty Wright for The Chronicle Matt and Zain have been friends since third grade. One voted for Donald Trump. The other is Muslim. A friendship is being tested. |
| Research By Paul Basken Researchers’ anxiety was evident at the AAAS meeting in Boston over the weekend. They want to push back against attacks on science, but don’t want to be seen as just another political interest group. |
| Technology By Lindsay McKenzie Yik Yak, an app notorious for anonymous gossip, generated controversy on campuses. Its successor focuses on productivity. |
| Data This searchable database shows how individual colleges' endowments have fared from 2007 through 2016. The figures come from the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. |
| Commentary By Charlie Eaton The disastrous endowment performance was widespread, but it left a handful of elite institutions with most of their wealth intact. |
| The Chronicle Review By Michael Bérubé Some you learn over weeks, others you learn over decades. |
| Lingua Franca Lucy Ferriss finds solace in Merriam-Webster. |
