Long exposure

Alumnus Justin Kern’s photographs of the quadrangles reveal a place that’s at once familiar and strange.

Opportunity knocks

With the doors open to new investments, the University plans its first faculty expansion in four decades.

The price of independence

The Constitution was “proslavery in its politics, in its economics, and its law.” The result, an alumnus argues in a new book, was A Slaveholders’ Union.

A rational choice

Economist Gary Becker returned to Chicago because “I knew I would be challenged by the faculty, by the students.” He met the challenge.

Roaming crusader

From asbestos to cell phones, Devra Lee Davis warns of potential public-health crises.

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Manual 16.0

Manual 16.0

The new edition of Chicago’s style bible is a testament to the online-publishing explosion.

Chicago Journal »

Poison control

Poison control

Epidemiologist Habibul Ahsan finds arsenic-contaminated drinking water responsible for one-fifth of the deaths in parts of rural Bangladesh.

Investigations »

Against the current

Against the current

Josh Ellis thinks the Asian-carp invasion can inspire long-term solutions for Chicago’s water problems.

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Out of the ashes

Out of the ashes

It’s a bird! It’s a phoenix! It’s—wait, is it a phoenix?

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