Ilya Marritz

Dec 5, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Ilya Marritz |Jazmin Aguilera

After war breaks out in the Middle East, Gay struggles to navigate bitter campus protests over war, antisemitism, free speech, and the proper role of the university. The tensions are on full display when Gay testifies under oath, providing legalistic answers to outraged members of Congress.

Dec 3, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Ilya Marritz |Jazmin Aguilera

The Harvard Plan, hosted by award-winning reporter Ilya Marritz, is a three-part podcast series from The Boston Globe in partnership with WNYC’s On The Media that takes listeners inside the chaos at Harvard University last year, exploring the rise and fall of Claudine Gay’s presidency and the explosive fight for the soul of America’s most prestigious university. Universities have become a battlefield in the American culture wars in a way that’s dramatic and new.

Oct 11, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Ilya Marritz

Both men are circulating slide decks among wealthy alumni and top administrators, listing changes they think should be made, and urging donors, who Lessin said in a 97-page slide deck have been “too blindly supportive and trusting,” to use their leverage. “Politicization Is the fundamental problem at Harvard,” Lessin wrote in his document. “Valuing certain voices over others based on identity vs.

Dec 26, 2023 | businessinsider.com | Andy Kroll |Andrea Bernstein |Ilya Marritz

Politics Leonard Leo, a longtime Federalist Society executive, has spent decades moving the judicial branch to the right. Carolyn Kaster/AP Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system into a conservative powerhouse. Between 2014 and 2020 alone, tax records show, groups in Leo's orbit raised more than $600 million.

Nov 28, 2023 | nmpoliticalreport.com | Andy Kroll |Andrea Bernstein |Ilya Marritz

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito’s luxury travel with billionaire Paul Singer have raised questions about influence and ethics at the nation’s highest court. by Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, illustrations by Nate Sweitzer for ProPublicaProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.