Sorry Bernie: There's little reason to think free college would boost America's educational performance. It's now an article of faith among progressives that public college should be free. Their logic is simple: Tuition is increasingly expensive, and high prices keep high school graduates from enrolling at all, cause some that do enroll ...

Wooing young voters with a $58 billion plan that gives money primarily to college graduates who don't need it. Democrats face an uphill battle in their quest to hold the Senate in November. In their effort to get an edge, they've targeted one group in particular: college-educated voters with student-loan debt. Democratic plans to help ...