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3 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Russ Baker

Politics Trying to intellectually neuter the populace. Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding.

3 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Ted Rall

Will silence become complicity? A society that jails peaceful graduate students for protesting or writing essays signals a chilling collapse of freedom. Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate, was arrested by ICE in March for leading pro-Palestinian protests, despite holding a green card. Transferred to a Louisiana detention center, he faces deportation for “foreign policy risks,” sparking outrage over free speech suppression.

4 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Klaus Marre

Justice While the Supreme Court's decision to halt Donald Trump's deportation flights is an encouraging sign, the dissent from Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas shows that two of the nine justices have no interest in upholding the rule of law.

4 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Klaus Marre

With their false idols and betrayal of Christian ideals, Trump’s GOP talks the talk but does not walk the walk. Pretending to be pious is an essential part of being a Republican, which is why we are going to see an avalanche of Bible quotes from them on social media this Easter Sunday. We are reasonably sure that even some staffer for Donald Trump will bang out a Truth Social post for the occasion and put the president’s name on it.

4 days ago | whowhatwhy.org | Klaus Marre

The partisan Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled this week that the state's Democratic governor can (a)buse his partial veto authority in the most creative of ways. But the ruling symbolizes something else that is a lot more troubling. Wisconsin Democrats celebrated a “victory” this week when the state’s Supreme Court ruled along party lines that Gov.