By Peter Vale, University of Pretoria In a rare move, the Trump administration expelled Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to…
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With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars
By Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my…
Trump orders a plan to close Education Department – an anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons why Trump and his supporters want to eliminate it
By Alex Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark “And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is…
US funding cuts may affect Nigeria’s fight against terrorism. Here’s how
By Al Chukwuma Okoli, Federal University Lafia The United States decision to cut international aid funding will affect Nigeria in…
DEI initiatives removed from federal agencies that fund science, but scientific research continues
By Filomena Nunes, Michigan State University As soon as President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, he signed…
We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants
By Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California and Raquel Delerme, University of Southern California President Donald Trump has vowed to…
Anti-DEI guidance from Trump administration misinterprets the law and guts educators’ free speech rights
By Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and…
Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
By Matthew Borus, Binghamton University, State University of New York While policy debates on immigration, abortion and other issues took…
Education Department “lifting the pause” on some civil rights probes, but not for race or gender cases
A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to…
60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history
By Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College and Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of…
