How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
From a statewide counterterrorism surveillance and intelligence-sharing hub in Ohio, a warning went out to administrators at the Ohio State...
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How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine
Cal Poly Humboldt students had been occupying a campus building in solidarity with Palestine for three days when then-university President...
Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement
A poster reads “UCLA Faculty for a Free Palestine” as faculty and staff members demonstrate with students at the University...
Saikat Chakrabarti’s Plan for the Political Revolution
It’s the end of an era. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who counts among her legacies in Congress successfully undercutting the...
Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
A view through the gate of the Islamic University of Gaza, where bombed buildings have doubled as shelters for families...
Dark Money Drives Anti-China Crackdown Across State Legislatures
States are passing a flurry of anti-China bills that critics warn could chill free speech, create an administrative albatross for...
Did TSA Rely on Controversial “Counter-Extremism” Group to Put Names on a Secret Watchlist?
Since Donald Trump returned to office nine months ago, his administration has launched high-profile investigations of universities that he believes...
Trump “National Police Force” Built on ICE Partnerships With Local Agencies Like… Wildlife Commissions?
In addition to deploying tens of thousands of federal agents from across the federal government to carry out his deportation...
Unions Sue to Stop AI Surveillance Powering Trump’s “Catch and Revoke” Deportation Scheme
Three major labor unions sued the federal government on Thursday to stop a sweeping social media surveillance program designed to...
I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide
Smoke from Israeli airstrikes rises over Gaza City amid ceasefire negotiations on Oct. 6, 2025. Photo: Hassan Jedi / Anadolu via...
Mohsen Mahdawi Faces Conservative Judges as Trump Administration Tries to Lock Him Back Up
The Trump administration will argue before a panel of three conservative federal judges Tuesday to put Columbia University graduate student...
MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel...
Trump’s Cult of Power Cancels Free Speech
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, conservatives have moved quickly to consolidate power and attack their political enemies, whose...
Inside Gavin Newsom’s transgender volleyball crisis
California high school senior Hadeel Hazameh believes she was brainwashed.For the previous three school years, she had to watch biological...
Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Could Be Next.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump during a dinner in the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty...
