Federal free-college policies are now at the center of the Democratic higher education agenda. Sen. Bernie Sanders helped move the idea into the mainstream during the 2016 presidential campaign, and other lawmakers have since worked to advance the policy in Congress. Joe Biden effectively put free college on the ballot in 2020 when he fully endorsed Sanders' original proposal to give federal matching grants for states to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities. A Democratic victory in Congress and the White House in 2020 would all but guarantee that such a policy is enacted. In response to the growing support for a federal free-college policy, the author assembled a collection of reports on the topic that were published over the past two years by the American Enterprise Institute, AEI's "National Affairs," or the Brookings Institution. The first report in this compilation, "The Cost of Free-College Plans," which appeared in the spring 2020 edition of "National Affairs," offers an overview of the basic design of federal free-college proposals like those advanced by Sanders and Biden. The second report, "Evidence Against the Free-College Agenda: An Analysis of Prices, Financial Aid, and Affordability at Public Universities," which was originally published by AEI in May 2020, explores a key claim underlying the free-college agenda: whether rising college tuition prices are as severe as proponents believe. The third report in this volume, "Free College and the Debt-Free Fantasy," also published by AEI, examines another argument that free-college proponents make. In their view, rising tuition prices at public colleges are a major cause of the rapid increase in outstanding student debt over the past two decades, which now stands at over $1.5 trillion. The last two reports in the volume, "Lessons from Chile's Transition to Free College" and "International Higher Education Rankings: Why No Country's Higher Education System Can Be the Best," provide an international perspective to the free-college debate. [This report was written with Andrés Bernasconi and Preston Cooper.]