Hidden Treasure

Unexpected ­Discoveries in Firestone Library

Published in the Apr. 25, 2012, issue

FOUND: Twenty-three watercolors by Gwen John, a British painter who died in 1939 and was the muse of sculptor Auguste Rodin. WHEN: In November 2010 by a visiting scholar in the papers of poet Arthur Symons, which were donated to the Princeton University...Read more

Crisis Contrived

Professor Douglas Massey *78 says that most of what we think about Mexican immigration is wrong

Published in the Apr. 25, 2012, issue

It costs 35 cents to walk across the Paso del Norte bridge from Juárez, Mexico, into Texas; 50 cents to return. Still, 85 cents makes it a cheap commute, and some 14,000 people cross the bridge on foot each day to work, shop, visit family, or go to school...Read more