Arman Amin

Arman Amin is 2025 Puffin student writing fellow focusing on politics and young people for The Nation. He is a student at Vanderbilt University.

Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, speaks during a news conference on education in August 2022.

Texas’s “Parental Rights” Amendment Will Cement Republicans’ Anti-Educator Agenda Texas’s “Parental Rights” Amendment Will Cement Republicans’ Anti-Educator Agenda

The ballot proposal is the right’s latest move in the culture war on teachers and public schools, embedding parental primacy in the state constitution.

Nov 3, 2025 / StudentNation / Arman Amin

Economics building on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Vanderbilt Uses “Institutional Neutrality” to Protect Against Trump. But Is It Truly Neutral? Vanderbilt Uses “Institutional Neutrality” to Protect Against Trump. But Is It Truly Neutral?

The university has largely complied to the government’s efforts to reshape higher education as critics on campus question the role of neutrality altogether.

Sep 15, 2025 / StudentNation / Arman Amin

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