President Trump’s assertion that a gang is committing crimes in the United States at the direction of Venezuela’s government was critical to his invocation of a wartime law last week …
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAs conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right …
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Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIn October 2023, three days before Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Columbia University’s new president stood outside Low Library and posed a foundational question. “What,” she asked, “does the world need …
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The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa. …
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My colleagues and I have written about how Elon Musk is dominating the political conversation. I wanted to hear what that sounds like in person, so I headed yesterday to …
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Florida Mayor Drops Threat to Evict Cinema Over Showing of ‘No Other Land’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“It is a place we can go to see not just fine art, but to present the complexities of life and allow us to be more reflective and to grow,” …
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Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesOver the weekend, the Trump administration ignored a federal judge’s order not to deport a group of Venezuelan men, violating an instruction that could not have been plainer or more …
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Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe State Department has ended funding for the tracking of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on …
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Elon Musk’s Role in Dismantling USAID Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesEfforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed Congress of its authority to …
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Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge’s Orders on Deportations
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Trump administration has asked a federal judge to dissolve the orders he put in place this weekend barring it from deporting suspected members of a Venezuelan street gang from …