Maya Sulkin

5 days ago | thefp.com | Maya Sulkin

Why My Generation Is Giving Up on City LifeMeet the Zoomers who are quitting the rat race, skipping the $8 lattes, and buying homes in towns you’ve never heard of. Zosha Lyons is not an impulsive person. But just over a year ago, in April 2024, the 25-year-old made an offer on a house just 20 minutes after seeing it for the first time—even though it was 2,000 miles away from the city where she’d planned to spend her twenties.

1 week ago | thefp.com | Maya Sulkin

“I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” said a defiant Mohsen Mahdawi after the pro-Palestinian student organizer at Columbia University was freed last week from federal custody while he fights the administration’s push to deport him. In his public statements since his release, Mohsen Mahdawi has portrayed himself as a blameless victim of a heavy-handed effort by the Trump administration to punish foreign students for their political opinions.

2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Maya Sulkin

Denounced, Cursed, and Ghosted: What Harvard’s Antisemitism Report Found‘I’m a Jew and I’ve learned that that is enough to make me no longer worthy of their friendship or even basic kindness at school.’Harvard University released its long-overdue report on campus antisemitism exactly 10 days after Trump officials demanded to see it. The findings are disturbing.

2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block |Maya Sulkin

Revealed: The Explosion in Foreign Funding for U.S. UniversitiesForeign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on American campuses at an industrial scale.’Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute shared exclusively with The Free Press.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Maya Sulkin

Harvard’s Antisemitism Task Force Hasn’t Published Its Report. Now Trump Wants to See a Draft. Harvard’s antisemitism task force promised to publish its findings last fall. Months after the deadline, it still hasn’t appeared—and now the federal government wants to see a draft. Trump officials have demanded that Harvard University provide them with a copy of a long-awaited report on antisemitism on its campus.