In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to set up shop as a political counterweight to the university, challenging its modes of governance and day-to-day operations
That was then: Silent Sam, standing.
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Alarmed by academia’s dominant ideological ethos of social justice activism –...
President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an executive order scheduled to take effect this week seeks to uproot a longstanding policy not found in much of the developed world: granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil. Under his order, the babies would, instead, inherit the immigration status of their parents.
The President's executive order.
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Attorneys general from 22 states have...
Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, convened a panel of civil rights leaders last month to assail President Donald Trump’s executive order on “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity.” The so-called anti-DEI order, Morial claimed, was an effort to “reverse the gains of the last seventy years.”
Marc Morial: His National Urban League has adopted the very types of discriminatory racial practices that were once condemned by early civil...
After nasty clashes involving character assassinations and a mass resignation, a showdown is drawing closer in Chicago between the most powerful local teachers’ union in the country and the most financially distressed school district.
Stacy Davis Gates, teacher union president: There’s unrest inside the union over her militant leadership.
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The growing possibility of a teachers’ strike in a city with a long history of labor...
