Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Federal judge orders 1,300 fired employees of Education Department reinstated

District Court Judge Myong J. Joun in Massachusetts reinstated 1,300 Education Department employees and restored "the Department to the status quo."

ACLU warns campus antisemitism bill could censor criticism of Israel and...

The ACLU opposes bipartisan Senate legislation, arguing it risks equating legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, violating First Amendment protections on college campuses.

Prestige, power, and dear old alma mater

Must higher education always genuflect before America’s highest incomes?

Student demands for divestment are not new

There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on that movement.

Hundreds arrested: Students across US protest for Palestine as campus crackdown...

Student protests calling for university divestment from Israel and the U.S. arms industry have rocked campuses from coast to coast. The nonviolent...

Pro-Palestinian campus encampments spread nationwide amid mass arrests at Columbia, NYU...

Solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid.

Historic Gaza protests at Columbia U. enter day 6; campus protests...

Solidarity protests and encampments have now sprouted up on campuses across the country, including at Yale, MIT, Tufts, NYU, The New School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Unraveling the knot: The Biden administration’s struggle for comprehensive student debt...

This article explores the multifaceted journey to reshape student debt relief, a journey that weaves through political, economic, and social intricacies.

Why we need to ban college legacy admissions

A big reason rich kids have such an advantage is so-called “legacy admissions”—the preference elite schools give to family members of alumni.

Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites

In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.