Michelle Goldberg, writing in The New York Times: “It increasingly looks as though he (Trump) and his allies are targeting academia more broadly, including the hard sciences that have long enjoyed bipartisan support. ‘I think the extreme desire is just to punish universities however possible,’ Kevin Carey, the director of the education policy program at New America, a public policy think tank, told me. “’It’s not based on any coherent policy agenda. It’s just a desire to inflict pain.”” Read her full commentary here.

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