Gov. Shapiro’s quiet grip on Penn shows how state pressure can turn private universities into political tools — and free speech into collateral damage.
What happens when we stop saying, "It’s a free country?" A new survey shows America is forgetting the everyday idioms that once sustained a culture of free speech—and with them, the habits of tolerance that keep democracy alive.
China censors Thai art show on authoritarianism, Hong Kong cites U.S. crackdowns to justify jailing Jimmy Lai, and T-shirts get people in trouble in Venezuela and Morocco
HHS’s Title VI findings against Harvard collapse speech and conduct into one bucket, creating a de facto national campus speech code that threatens to turn political dissent into a punishable civil rights violation.
2025 has not been kind to Harvard. To date, the Trump administration has revoked nearly $3 billion in research funding to the university, demanding violations of free speech, academic freedom, and institutional autonomy in return for restoring the funding.
