Friday, August 14, 2026

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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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations

A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.

The Mexicanization of the United States

The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.

The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions

The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.