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The shame of Columbia University In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny Robert Reich Mar 22 Friends, If you give in to extortionists, they’ll extort you and others for more. If you let bullies get their way, those bullies will bully you and others even more menacingly. Which brings me to Columbia University’s president and trustees, who today surrendered the university’s academic freedom to the Trump regime. Trump threatened to cancel $400 million in federal funding if Columbia didn’t put its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department in “academic receivership.” Columbia has now agreed to appoint a senior vice provost to oversee the department. A cornerstone of academic freedom is that professors can research and teach what they want. Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught. ...

  Trump Administration Arrests Second Student from Columbia University Over Anti-Genocide Campus Protests in  Palestine       by  Quds News Network      15/03/2025 New York (Quds News Network)- The Trump administration has arrested a second Palestinian student from Columbia University, escalating its crackdown on anti-genocide protests at U.S. campuses. On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the detention of Leqaa Kordia , a Palestinian student, accusing her of overstaying her F-1 student visa. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took her into custody for deportation. Kordia’s arrest comes less than a week after Mahmoud Khalil , a Palestinian protest organizer, was also detained by ICE. Khalil, a U.S. green card holder, now faces the revocation of his residency status. His American wife is eight months pregnant. Another international student, Ranjani Srinivasan of India, had her student visa revoked for allegedl...

    19 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News SEPTEMBER HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE FOR DONATIONS — Some of our donors are doing the best that they can but overall we are down 35% from one month ago. For RSN that’s a huge chunk of our already very limited budget. At this point we are just trying to limit loses and keep it as close as possible. Take a moment to chip-in and sustain this organization you come to. That way it will be here when you come back. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   Robert Reich | Trump's Latest Threat Is a Doozy Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Substack Reich writes: "Trump’s latest threat requires four responses." And what we must do about it Y esterday, Donald Trump  threatened  that if he is indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before,” adding “I don’t th...