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Kevin Carey

Washington, D.C.

Columnist at Freelance

VP, @NewAmericaEd. Words: @NYTimes, @Washingtonpost, @TheAtlantic, @Voxdotcom, @WIRED, @TIME, @Slate, etc. I've made my mind a sunless space.

Articles

  • 1 week ago | vox.com | Kevin Carey

    The Trump administration’s recent decision to bar international students from attending Harvard University was less a policy decision than an act of war. The White House had hoped its opening salvo against the nation’s oldest university would yield the kind of immediate capitulation offered by Columbia University. When Harvard chose to fight back instead, Trump decided to hit the university where it hurts most. The administration’s actions are illegal and were immediately stayed by a federal judge.

  • 3 weeks ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    Five years ago, as death, panic, and viruses were spreading across the globe, the Trump administration announced it was halting collections of college debt. At the time, almost everyone agreed this was a good idea. “It is going to make a lot of students happy,” President Donald Trump remarked. This week, an entire Biden administration later, Trump’s Department of Education began throwing the full force of the federal government against people who had defaulted on their student loans.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Kevin Carey

    Five years ago, as death, panic, and viruses were spreading across the globe, the Trump administration announced it was halting collections of college debt. At the time, almost everyone agreed this was a good idea. “It is going to make a lot of students happy,” President Donald Trump remarked. This week, an entire Biden administration later, Trump’s Department of Education began throwing the full force of the federal government against people who had defaulted on their student loans.

  • 1 month ago | newamerica.org | Kevin Carey

    For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding $400 million in federal grants to Columbia hostage until the university agreed to a lengthy list of demands.

  • 2 months ago | vox.com | Kevin Carey

    For the past month, President Donald Trump has been stalking the richest universities in the world like a horror movie serial killer picking off a group of frightened teenagers one by one. Why aren’t they using their multibillion-dollar endowments to fight back? The spree started in early March, when the administration announced it was holding $400 million in federal grants to Columbia hostage until the university agreed to a lengthy list of demands.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1
16 May 25

RT @AlmsNatalie: SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were fou…

Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1
14 May 25

RT @JHWeissmann: A DOGE employee arrived at the VA and realized that, actually, the government more or less works fine. https://t.co/mX90f2…

Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1
14 May 25

Amazing that over two seasons of television #Andor made the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth-best Star Wars movies.