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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas
Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known…
Frannie Block
Harvard Had It Coming. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Is Right.
The school is taking a stand for academic freedom, writes Charles Lane. How long will it last?
Charles Lane
Christopher Rufo: The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
Civil-rights laws have always been a weapon—it’s just that conservatives have finally decided to wield them.
Christopher F. Rufo
I Was Called an ‘Inbred Swine’ at Princeton Last Night
Anti-Israel protesters shut down a campus event by pulling a fire alarm and hurling vile slurs. Will our college president finally act?
Danielle Shapiro
The Godfather of the Campus Intifada
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the…
Eli Lake
Mom Who Sued School for DEI Records Told They’re ‘a Trade Secret’
A Pennsylvania school refused to divulge its curriculum on the grounds of confidentiality. Then a mother fought the district in a state appellate court.
Frannie Block
How One Town Turned a Child’s ‘Cry For Help’ Into a Hate Crime
After three nooses were found in a bush in Evanston, Illinois, two children were vilified as racist. A family was driven out of their home. Now, over…
Frannie Block
Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch
Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas
Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.
Maya Sulkin
I’m a Liberal at a ‘Conservative’ University. How Did I End Up Here?
My students at UATX know they can disagree passionately with their classmates—a more meaningful definition of ‘safe space’ than what I encountered…
Boris Fishman
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
Welcome to Hamassachusetts
‘Rampant and ubiquitous antisemitism’ is making its way into the largest teachers union in New England, lawmakers say.
Frannie Block and Will Sussman
EXCLUSIVE: A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Couldn’t Even Read.
Now, the Tennessee teen is suing his school district, Frannie Block reports.
Frannie Block
How American Educators Are Conning Kids
As U.S. students keep falling behind, educators keep lowering standards. ‘It’s like telling everyone they’re a great swimmer when you know half of us…
Frannie Block
Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education
I served as the 11th U.S. secretary of education. That’s how I know it’s beyond repair.
Betsy DeVos
Deporting ‘Pro-Jihadist’ Students: Censorship or Good Governance?
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley debate Trump’s executive orders on antisemitism.
Ilya Shapiro and Robert Shibley
Inside Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’
A recent exhibit presented the tools and planning behind the Hamilton Hall break-in. A speaker called for a ‘Zionist-free NYC.’
Maya Sulkin
Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?
Ben Kawaller meets an education activist who wants kids to be taught that sex is assigned and gender is a social construct.
Ben Kawaller
2M
How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools
His book has gained bipartisan fans from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Olivia Reingold reports on the Haidt effect.
Olivia Reingold
A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.
Parents are suing schools to find out what their kids are learning. Schools are suing parents to shut them up. How did we get here?
Josh Code and Frannie Block
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