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Over the past 13 years working in higher education administration, I’ve come to strongly believe that higher education is central to the success of the democratic experiment. Yet, higher ed—as well as democracy more broadly—is under attack amid a new wave of authoritarianism.

To meet this moment, I stepped down from my role as President of Delta College in Michigan to ...


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WASHINGTON—The Disney corporation today filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from applying aggressive regulatory actions against Disney and its ABC affiliates, including requiring the company to submit to an early review of its broadcast license.

The following can be attributed to Katie Fallow, deputy ...


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This memo was written and sent to Yale's President, general counsel, and board of trustees shortly after the University's negotiations with the Trump administration over allegations of discrimination in admissions were


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This September will mark a quarter-century since 9/11 and the inauguration of the “war on terror.” Many of us will be reflecting on the meaning of those events and on the profound impact they have had on so many lives here in the United States and around the world. At the Knight Institute, we’ll be reflecting in particular on the way those events transformed American democrac...


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It’s not a news flash that college campuses go through turbulent periods, including vigorous and sometimes disruptive protests. But until the second Trump Administration arrived in January 2025, it would have been a news flash for the federal government to be the lead national disruptor. Yet the administration’s rapid-fire


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