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Trump Administration Rules on Science Funding Likely to Hobble American Research
Investment
August 20, 2026

Trump Administration Rules on Science Funding Likely to Hobble American Research

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A Predictable Failure: Trump’s Board of Peace
Insights
July 20, 2026

A Predictable Failure: Trump’s Board of Peace

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Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively 
Opinion
June 22, 2026

Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively 

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How Publishers Extract Money, Labor, and Data from Universities
Industry
April 29, 2026

How Publishers Extract Money, Labor, and Data from Universities

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Challenges to Democracy

Challenges to Democracy

David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the […]

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Higher Education In The UK Is In Crisis. We Need to Reimagine Its Very Purpose If It Is To Survive

Higher Education In The UK Is In Crisis. We Need to Reimagine Its Very Purpose If It Is To Survive

Education systems do not operate outside of society or in a vacuum, they reflect wider dominant socio-economic approaches and discourses-  the increasing […]

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CDC – Meltdown or Hissy Fit?

CDC – Meltdown or Hissy Fit?

At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Trump administration […]

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Rejecting University Rankings: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water

Rejecting University Rankings: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water

This week Berend van der Kolk published a call to ban university rankings. He concludes: ”So, let’s have (inter)national and/or local discussions […]

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Degrading Sites of Punishment and Pain: The Case for Abolishing Prisons

Degrading Sites of Punishment and Pain: The Case for Abolishing Prisons

Prisons have been in crisis in England and Wales for 200 years. The state has responded with piecemeal, ‘pragmatic’ reforms which have […]

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Propaganda of the Deed: Learning the Lessons of Mikhail Bakunin

Propaganda of the Deed: Learning the Lessons of Mikhail Bakunin

David Canter explores where Netanyahu may have got it wrong in the overwhelming response in Gaza.

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Trans Visibility, Resistance, and Hope in an Anti-Trans U.S. Political Climate

Trans Visibility, Resistance, and Hope in an Anti-Trans U.S. Political Climate

[Ed. This article originally posted in March 2025. We have updated it in 2026 with resources at the end of the narrative.] […]

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War on Words

War on Words

David Canter considers how words are the frontline in the battle for minds, revealed in the Trump administration banning many everyday words.

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