With DEI Training, Higher Ed Made a Lot of Mistakes. Now We’re Repeating Them. The new civics movement should heed that warning.

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It is stunning that the US apparently did not take Iran’s threats to close the Strait seriously, nor does the campaign seem to have recognized the specific military importance of mines as a tool for asymmetric Iranian leverage. Quick thread 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...

The Next Phase of the Immigration Crackdown Is Quieter — and More Destabilizing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/m...

The Small Private Colleges Dying in a Winner-Take-All University Marketplace Big-name campuses turn away students while hundreds of lesser-known schools struggle to fill seats.

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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The Growing Bifurcation in Venezuela's Transition Interview on The World

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A page from the book 1984

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

US drops sanctions against acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez - The World from PRX The US lifted sanctions against acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez yesterday. It’s the latest in a series of changes that began when President Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U...

I spoke to PRX The World about what’s changing and what’s not in Venezuela

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No Kings NOLA

Looking forward to this virtual discussion. Thanks to @vickymurillo.bsky.social and @emoncada.bsky.social for organizing it. To losten in register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Really, who could have guessed? 🤷‍♂️

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Trump usará Venezuela tres años más, pero solo en su propio beneficio La intervención no trajo elecciones ni transición. El rumbo dependerá de las elecciones de medio término en EE.UU. y del costo político interno para Trump.

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Opinion | Why Universities Keep Losing the Argument They have responded to public skepticism with appeals to their own authority. It’s not working.

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Will Sutton: These two leaders in politics and pop culture agree: Higher ed in La. must adapt Columnist Will Sutton finds that there is growing agreement among leaders like state Senate President Cameron Henry and rapper Master P, who is president of UNO’s basketball operations, that universit...

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Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

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David Brooks: ‘We’re Part of the Problem’ The “New York Times” columnist on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets right, and why he’s leaving the newspaper to take a new job at Yale University.

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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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Les comparto un reportaje de @rcienespanol.bsky.social sobre los costos físicos y sociales de la crisis venezolana desde una mirada feminista, basados en una entrevista que tuvimos en enero y la reciente publicación de “Embodying Predation” con @antuliorosales.bsky.social
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#Venezuela

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Looking forward to this virtual presentation for the U of Illinois Center for Global Studies, 3 pm Central, 4 pm Eastern, 5 pm Caracas. Join online following the link below.
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Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

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Sounds like a truly fantastic program, David!