Trump vs. Harvard

As polls open in Maine, a big question for the Dems is whether Graham Platner should be the party's nominee in November, even if he wins today's primary ... Donald Trump becomes the first sitting president to attend an NBA finals game, and the home team blows a 13-game winning st ...  Show more

Despite President Trump saying just yesterday that negotiations between Israel and Iran were just about done, both countries engaged in a barrage of fresh strikes against each other. Israel attacked an Iranian petrochemical plant, hitting several targets at that complex. The IDF ...  Show more

President Donald Trump has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education. The administration’s Anti-Semitism Task Force has frozen billions of dollars in federal funding after Harvard refused to comply with their demands. WSJ’s Douglas Belkin on the showdown be ...  Show more

This week, Harvard University, the oldest and wealthiest in the US, defied Donald Trump a list of demands. The Trump administration responded by freezing $2.2bn in federal funding for the Ivy League school. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Harvard professor Ryan Enos t ...  Show more

International Harvard students say they are experiencing “pure panic” amid the Trump administration’s move to bar foreign enrollment, as students from around the world told CNN they are coming to grips with the possibility of revoked visas, suspended research and being blocked fr ...  Show more

This week, we interviewed two people with leading roles in the rapidly escalating conflict between the Trump administration and American higher education. 

Today, we speak with the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, about the institution’s path ...