Good evening, readers! We trust you’ve enjoyed your weekend, and that you’ve spent some time thinking up suitably devious pranks for Tuesday’s April Fool’s Day. While you gear up for the week ahead, take the time to look back on some of the stories you may have missed over the week behind:

Ebola is as terrifying as it is deadly, and officials have now confirmed its presence in Guinea’s capital of Conakry.

Airbnb is one of many new service providers running afoul of the status quo in blue model cities. The company has dredged up some interesting data in its defense.

The Department of Education must be nostalgic for defunct regulations. If it reinstates the requirement that states authorize all online programs that enroll students within their borders, students will suffer.

In a rare sign of sanity in higher education, students are doing an end run on the ‘time served’ model of degree attainment at colleges, and instead are attending university in order to pick up only the skills they need.

Repression and tolerance follow each other in cycles in Egypt. Now is a particularly brutal time of torture and violence.

The EU may start using the prospect of hydrocarbon imports from North America as leverage in the conflict over the Crimea. The economic dynamism of the American people often rescues us from our worst global blunders.

President Obama wants to transform the world while saving money and reducing overseas commitments. He can’t have it both ways.

There’s a potent but underreported contributor to income inequality in our universities: the party scene.

Friday’s US-Saudi meeting on Iran and Syria shows President Obama facing some of the most dangerous choices he’s had to make yet.