Image Credit: Bettmann/Getty (R) We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities...
Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-King BBC News, Washington DC and Boston BBC For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken...
Weeks after the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution to form a “mutual defense compact” — aiming to band together with other universities to protect from the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom and free speech — university communities’ push for their schools to stand up to the White House is gaining momentum. Labor unions,...