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Mary Julia Koch

New York

Reporter at The New York Sun

Reporting on foreign policy and higher education @NewYorkSun. @Harvard ‘23

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  • Mar 6, 2024 | nysun.com | Mary Julia Koch

    Reports are emerging of the first fatalities since Yemen’s Houthi rebels began strikes against civilian shipping in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. Two crew members were killed by a Houthi missile strike that hit the Barbados-flagged commercial ship, True Confidence, on Wednesday, British and U.S. officials confirmed. Four seafarers were also reported to have been severely burned and three were missing after a missile hit the ship.

  • Mar 6, 2024 | nysun.com | Mary Julia Koch

    Mayor Hochul is enlisting significant state resources to combat the skyrocketing rates of violent crime in New York City’s underground. In a five point plan announced Wednesday, Ms. Hochul said that 750 members of the National Guard and 250 police officers of New York State and of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be deployed to work in the city’s subway system. This adds to the more than 1,000 New York Police Department officers who were stationed underground last month.

  • Mar 6, 2024 | nysun.com | Mary Julia Koch

    Federal agencies could soon be blocked from contracting with Chinese biotech companies accused of granting the Chinese Communist Party access to the medical data of tens of millions of Americans. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will hold a hearing on Wednesday on a bill to effectively ban Chinese biotechnology giants from operating in America.

  • Mar 5, 2024 | nysun.com | Mary Julia Koch

    In the political fray over the future of higher education, one critical authorizing power is potentially wielding more influence over campuses today than students, professors, administrators, and even university presidents — the gatekeepers of federal student aid, higher education accreditors. Calls are growing to scrap the current system of accreditation, under which critics say nongovernmental accrediting agencies abuse their quasi-regulatory authority to sway colleges ideologically.

  • Mar 5, 2024 | nysun.com | Mary Julia Koch

    Swastikas on lockers. Calls to “kill the Jews” and “eliminate Israel” echoing in the school hallways. A poster of a fist punching through a Star of David on a map of Israel, which one teacher calls “resistance art,” hanging in a classroom. Jewish students being asked by their non-Jewish peers to say what “their number is,” a reference to Nazi concentration camps. The year is 2024, not the late 1930s. This is happening not at Berlin.

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Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch
13 May 25

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Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch
11 May 25

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Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Will the passing of Pope Francis and the rise of Pope Leo XIV signify the end of liberal Catholicism? That's the hope of many young Catholics who are rejecting progressivism for traditionalism — aka #TradCath. I explore this movement in @NewYorkSun: https://t.co/V0FyzxCKvM

Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch
11 May 25

“I’ve been teaching for 15 years now, at two different Catholic colleges, and I’ve observed a massive shift toward more traditional practices among Catholic students,” @CRPakaluk says. That includes Latin liturgies, old-fashioned theology, and “betrothal” ceremonies.

Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Will the passing of Pope Francis and the rise of Pope Leo XIV signify the end of liberal Catholicism? That's the hope of many young Catholics who are rejecting progressivism for traditionalism — aka #TradCath. I explore this movement in @NewYorkSun: https://t.co/V0FyzxCKvM