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Tag: Harvard

‘No nonprofit is safe’: Trump escalates federal crackdown on civil society...

From Ivy League universities to climate and justice nonprofits, the Trump administration is deploying tax threats, federal takeovers, and embedded agents to suppress ideological dissent and dismantle nonprofit independence.

Harvard set up worthless carbon offsetting scheme that sold millions of...

EasyJet, British American Tobacco and Ernst & Young are all among the biggest buyers of credits from the project.

From plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on how a GOP...

He says plagiarism became a “pretext” to oust Gay, and discusses the larger right-wing war on education aimed at undoing progress on race, gender and addressing inequality.

Harvard Law Review rejects Palestinian scholar’s essay on Gaza genocide, igniting...

This decision has sparked debates about academic freedom and the suppression of Palestinian voices in legal academia.

Harvard and Jeffrey Epstein

“Once Epstein was convicted, Harvard should have cut him off from further communication with the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences]. He didn't deserve more.”

Harvard Has Billions, So Why Won’t It Pay Workers a Living...

Striking dining hall employees at the Ivy League school have turned the spotlight on the low salaries of administrative positions nationwide.

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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families

The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.

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The America we once knew...gone!

What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?

New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.

NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts

The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.

GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...

New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.