Well before political leaders were taking action against cellphones in the classroom, the superintendent of schools in Schoharie, N.Y., a rural district about 40 miles west of Albany, was well…
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.
As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right…
Trump Is Said to Sign Order Aimed at Dismantling Education Department
President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials. The department cannot be…
Opinion | Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic
Harvard was also the place where Schumer first saw left-wing antisemitism in action — using the cloak of anti-Zionism, as it often does today. At a 1970 campus speech by…
For Tina Louise, Escape, Finally, From ‘Gilligan’s Island’
The green-eyed TV star with the beauty mark on her cheek shows up at a school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan every Wednesday. For an hour, Ms. Tina,…
Autoridades indican la razón por la que deportaron a una profesora de Brown
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional informó el lunes que había deportado a una profesora y médica de la Universidad Brown con un visado válido porque, según indicó, asistió al funeral…
Pro-Palestinian Activists Removed From Michigan’s Student Government
Alifa Chowdhury’s successful campaign to lead the University of Michigan’s student government promised just one thing: to block financing for campus groups until the university agreed to divest from companies…
Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil
Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case…
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
The first knock at the door came eight days ago, on a Friday morning. Three federal immigration agents showed up at a Columbia University apartment searching for Ranjani Srinivasan, who…
Fact-Checking Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech on Crime, Immigration and His Cases
President Trump repeated a number of well-trodden falsehoods on Friday in a grievance-fueled speech at the Justice Department, veering from prepared remarks to single out lawyers and prosecutors and assail…