The Wall Street Journal

The White House proposes that the government forgive billions of dollars in student debt over the next decade, a plan that cheers student advocates, but critics say it would expand a program that already encourages students to borrow too much and stick taxpayers with the bill.

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Wednesday, 8 p.m., on HBO. "Manhunt" was directed by Greg Barker and is based on Peter Bergen's 2012 book, "Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad." Fortunately for us, the film reaches back much further than 10 years, to a ...

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Making sense of the Chicago teachers' strike (where the two sides were reportedly moving toward resolution on Friday) is like trying to understand the failure of a friend's marriage. You can't help speculating about who's to blame, but you'll never really know. In truth, it doesn't matter. Many countries have revolutionized their education systems in recent years, but not one of them has done it through strikes, walkouts or righteous indignation.

Labor Day weekend in 1969—Saturday, Aug. 30, to be more precise—deserves more prominence in history books. At any rate, that is what Andrew Blum, a correspondent for Wired magazine, wants us to believe: He says the date marks the "Internet's physical birth." It was then that the Interface Message Processor No. 1—the first of the many machines that would eventually be linked into the Defense Department's network known as the Arpanet—arrived on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles. By Oct.