Adam Harris is a staff writer at the Atlantic.
He is the author of The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right. Before joining the Atlantic in 2018, Adam was a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education covering federal higher-education policy and HBCUs. He was a 2021 National Fellow at New America and was named to that year’s Forbes "30 Under 30" list. At the Atlantic, he writes about politics and education.
Selected Work
- The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job: There were colleges that attempted integrated education before the government stepped in. Berea College was one of them.
- The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action: A story about how affirmative action was killed in the cradle.
- They Wanted Desegregation. They Settled for Money, and It’s About to Run Out.: Historically black colleges continue to play an outsized role in the education of black students despite only composing three-percent of four-year, non-profit colleges, and they have been underfunded since the beginning.
