Faced with a growing budget deficit that's reached $45 million, the University of North Texas has announced that it will close or consolidate 85 academic programs.

Winston Churchill noted “it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” ...

A decade later, she spoke to me about her grief in metaphors, as something ongoing rather than completed, a process that had shifted shape over time but had not ended. Ella’s experience is not unusual ...