Saturday, January 24, 2026

Peter Elkind and Katherine Mangan

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Peter Elkind is a national investigative reporter at ProPublica. Before joining ProPublica in 2017, he worked at Fortune for 20 years. He’s the author or co-author of three books, including The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. He lives in Texas. Katherine Mangan writes about campus diversity, student activism, government efforts to shape higher education, and how colleges are responding and sometimes resisting. Follow her @KatherineMangan, or email her at katie.mangan@chronicle.com

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