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Topic: Graduation

A graduate holds a Kermit the Frog doll as he addressed the graduates at University of Maryland on May 22, 2025. (The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images)

Kermit speaks. Are we listening?

CK Smith
President Trump address graduating cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point on May, 24, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump to cadets: "We will not fail you."

CK Smith
Rear View Of People Lined Up At Graduation Ceremony (Getty Images / Supachok Pichetkul / EyeEm)

Make graduations less boring, please!

D. Watkins
Two college graduates on campus (Getty Images)

As a new graduate, I should be terrified

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
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House plants, with a medical mask hanging off the stem (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

After prison, graduating into a pandemic

Hanima Eugene, Ela Banerjee, Cliff Mayotte
Robert Reich in “Saving Capitalism” (Netflix)

Reich's advice to the Class of 2020

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Cars destroyed by the Camp Fire sit in the lot at a used car dealership on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Fire, displacement, diplomas

Justine Calma - Grist
A student's personal message is conveyed on her cap during the undergraduate graduation exercises for Jackson State University's Class of 2016 at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 23, 2016. First lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (AP)

Valedictorian faces uncertain future

John R. Thelin - The Conversation
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Duck-and-cover America

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Valedictorian Christian Bales delivering his speech after the ceremony. (WLWT5)

Gay valedictorian barred by school

Rachel Leah
"Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by David Graeber (Simon & Schuster/Getty/GillTeeShots)

One book every new graduate should read

Erin Keane
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Grad rates lag for low-income students

Nathan Favero - The Conversation
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Congrats, grads! Ready to work for free?

Sophia A. McClennen
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Walking out on Pence

Charlie May
(Sundance)

Romanian film tackles morality

Gary M. Kramer
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"Just be yourself" is nonsense

Jesse Browner
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Joanna Rothkopf
Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills/Jessica Hill/Salon)

Reagan stuck it to millennials

Peter Lunenfeld
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Dear grads: Forget your dreams

Tim Donovan
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Prachi Gupta
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Katie McDonough
(Jacquelyn Martin)

Prachi Gupta

Prachi Gupta
George Saunders (Wikimedia Commons)

Jillian Rayfield
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