David Horowitz, Leftist Turned Trump Defender, Is Dead at 86

Once a Marxist, he came to embrace hard-right positions, including the falsehood that Mr. Trump won in 2020, and to mentor Stephen Miller, later the Trump adviser.

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This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump

Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.

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Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

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Harvard Promises Changes After Reports on Antisemitism and Islamophobia

The two reports, which run hundreds of pages, come at a difficult time for the university, which is suing the Trump administration over federal funding cuts.

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Harvard, Under Pressure, Revamps D.E.I. Office

The move comes as President Trump has tried to abolish D.E.I. programs at universities.

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Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump

A recent group statement showed that the nation’s academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the president’s moves, are beginning to unite.

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Judge Limits Trump’s Ability to Withhold School Funds Over D.E.I.

The administration was seeking to cut off money from public schools that allowed certain diversity and equity programs.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor Says Judges Must Be ‘Fearlessly Independent’

The justice made remarks at once cautious and forceful at Georgetown University Law Center, which has called attacks by the Trump administration a threat to academic freedom.

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UK University Gets Record Free Speech Fine Over Transgender Policy

A regulator penalized the school three years after a professor quit in response to what she said was a campaign of harassment over her views on transgender identity.

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Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed

Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.

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