Open a New Front for Racial Justice

This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here.

If there’s one message the Washington Monthly has been trying to get across over the years in its writing about higher education, it’s this: Stop obsessing over wealthy elite universities that educate the few, and pay more attention to the underfunded, unfancy schools that educate the many. For Democrats (or anyone else) concerned...