The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts
The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.
May 29, 2025 / Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings
I soon realized that neither the law nor the facts matter to the Committee on Education’s Republican inquisitors.
May 28, 2025 / David Cole
The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying The Democratic Party Is Literally Dying
The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise.
May 23, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Trump Wants Thousands of Migrant Children to Represent Themselves in Court Trump Wants Thousands of Migrant Children to Represent Themselves in Court
The administration’s funding cuts would force unaccompanied migrant children, from infants to toddlers to teenagers, to navigate complex and punishing legal procedures entirely al...
May 23, 2025 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether
Journalism Schools Are Facing Dual Pressures Under Trump Journalism Schools Are Facing Dual Pressures Under Trump
The administration’s attacks on both news outlets and universities can place journalism schools—and their students—at an alarming intersection.
May 14, 2025 / StudentNation / Mohamad Rimawi
The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week
Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die honorably performing their duty. But the memorial in Washington fails to distinguish between them.
May 9, 2025 / Elizabeth Robeson
To Suppress the Latest Protest, Columbia Unveils a Violent New Form of Campus Policing To Suppress the Latest Protest, Columbia Unveils a Violent New Form of Campus Policing
Protestors rechristened the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room “Basel Al-Araj Popular University” in honor of the late Palestinian writer before Public Safety and the NYPD arrived.
May 8, 2025 / StudentNation / Lara-Nour Walton
Voted for Poor Health Voted for Poor Health
Buyers’ remorse for MAGA?
May 7, 2025 / OppArt / Jesse Duquette
Trump Is Taking a Wrecking Ball to Indigenous Education Trump Is Taking a Wrecking Ball to Indigenous Education
After mass layoffs and scholarship freezes, students and tribal leaders are suing the Trump administration for violating treaty obligations.
May 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Connor Arakaki