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Weiss and the Ellisons have an utterly transparent ideological agenda. Thank you, Scott Pelley, for calling them out.

By Perry Bacon

Right-wing money is supercharging the religious right’s push to literally get all up in our business.

By Katherine Stewart

There are many ways to interrupt the Trump administration’s brutal deportation campaign. Just look at what’s happening around Delaney Hall in New Jersey.

By Melissa Gira Grant

Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural lays bare the alienated labor behind the catchy hits and sequined costumes.

By Kristen Martin

Climate change is making it increasingly hard to have fun in the sun—and the leading fossil fuel corporations have long known this was going to happen.

By Aaron Regunberg

By Jordan Heller 

Over this past winter and spring, I spoke to some 20 current and former faculty and staff at the vaunted Ivy League institution, some of whom refused to be quoted by name for fear of reprisals by Penn administrators, donors, and funders, or fear of harassment from far-right-wing agitators. They all report that diversity, equity, and inclusion, academic freedom, and free speech are under attack on the Penn campus. And it’s not just the absence of protest on College Green that concerns them. DEI language has been scrubbed from university websites and programming scaled back. Trans athletes have been barred from women’s sports. Put up an anti-ICE flyer, and it gets taken down. Attempt to organize a screening or a panel discussion deemed critical of Israel, and a call from campus security says you won’t be accommodated. Lecture on the plight of Palestinians and be accused of antisemitism. Basically, these professors say, anything deemed offensive to the Trump administration, which could thereby put federal funding to the university at risk, can elicit unwanted attention from Penn’s Office of General Counsel. Faculty in the School of Medicine even told me that efforts to urge Congress to preserve science funding were suppressed by Penn administrators. The pursuit of science, they were effectively told, is now categorized as partisan politics. (Penn’s Office of General Counsel declined my requests for an interview.)

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Department of Justice lawyers made the bizarre argument while defending Donald Trump’s ballroom.

By Edith Olmsted

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