Pro-Israel Groups Pushed for Warrantless Spying on Protesters
Today on TAP: The worst fears of reformers of warrantless spying could be realized.
View ArticleUniversity Presidents as Provocateurs
Today on TAP: Clamping down on protesters predictably stirs them up.
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Campus Activism
The linkages between anti-war protesters and 317,000 students who waited a decade for restitution for their fraudulent college loans
View ArticleWhat College Presidents Need to Learn
Today on TAP: And what Joe Biden had better learn
View ArticleThe Prospect Weekly Roundup: Hedge Funds First, Universities Second
Fighting unchecked corporate power in the courts and on university campuses
View ArticleThe Kids Are All Right, but the Police Are Hovering
Virginia Commonwealth University’s recent student protest and university and police reaction is a prime example of the conflict between protecting free speech and ensuring public safety.
View ArticleBig-Money Divestments Are So Important to College Protesters
D.C. student protesters are demanding university transparency and divestment from big corporations that do business with the Israeli military.
View ArticleCan Biden Save the Jews From Netanyahu?
Paradoxically, his speech today at the Holocaust Museum on antisemitism is the moment to do so.
View ArticleThe New Anti-Antisemitism
The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.
View ArticleAll Quiet on the Western Front
Bay Area students organize effectively, but haven’t heard back from university administrators.
View ArticleCan We All Get Along?
A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect
View Article‘Brown’ at 70
The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.
View ArticleThe Support Our Public Services Briefly Had—and Still Need
And how President Biden can make that goal a better campaign theme
View ArticleLocating Ourselves in the Wreckage of Neoliberalism
Democracy Schools and other community listening sessions can bring together people of different experiences around common themes.
View ArticleTeachers in the South Go Union
Today on TAP: It’s not just autoworkers who are unionizing in the non-union South. In Virginia, schoolteachers are successfully organizing, too.
View ArticleLouisiana Hangs Ten
Today on TAP: A law signed yesterday mandates displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom. First Amendment? Feh!
View ArticleA Small-Town Texas Librarian’s Big Stand Against Book Bans
In Llano County, a local librarian fought back against censorship, prompting a federal court fight and national recognition but losing the job of her dreams.
View ArticleStudent Loan Rulings Highlight Unaccountable Judicial Power—Again
Two judges this week invalidated part of a program that’s been in place for 30 years. The rulings contradict each other and seem unworkable in practice.
View ArticleSchool’s Out
Demographic crashes and rising costs threaten an entire segment of higher education.
View ArticleWall Street Hits the Locker Room
Private equity firms are maneuvering to invest in college athletes, their schools, and the conferences they play in. The deals could add risk to the whole system.
View ArticleChicago Public Schools—From Worst to (Almost) First
A system that used to be ridiculed has become a model for schools in other cities.
View ArticleDebating Public Education in North Carolina
The election for superintendent of public instruction features a mainstream educator against a homeschooler.
View ArticleWill the Care Agenda Make It This Time?
Bills investing in child care, elder care, and paid leave almost passed a few years ago. What lessons will their champions take with them into the future?
View ArticleTrump’s Supreme Court Trashes Student Debt Relief
Today on TAP: The conversion of the high court into a body of opportunistic partisan hacks, courtesy of Trump’s three appointees, needs to be a bigger issue in the election.
View ArticleFor-Profit College Students Sue MOHELA for Not Delivering Promised Debt...
Kamala Harris has touted debt cancellation for defrauded students. But two years after cancellations were announced, some borrowers are still being harassed for payment.
View ArticleNavient Kicked Out of Student Loan System That It Already Left
The company was a bad student loan servicer; so are its successors. The problem is that private servicers can’t make a profit without harming borrowers.
View ArticleThe Self-Imposed October Surprise
The Education Department’s protections for student loan borrowers who have missed payments end today.
View ArticleBreaking the Public Schools
Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.
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