Public Policy

War on Words
Opinion
March 19, 2025

War on Words

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How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Public Policy
March 14, 2025

How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal

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What Can We Learn From The Women Of The Iron Age? 
Bookshelf
March 5, 2025

What Can We Learn From The Women Of The Iron Age? 

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Your Eyes May Widen at What Ted Cruz Designates as ‘Woke’
Investment
March 4, 2025

Your Eyes May Widen at What Ted Cruz Designates as ‘Woke’

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Two Legal Scholars Unpack Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance to Higher Ed

Two Legal Scholars Unpack Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance to Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion have continued in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. […]

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What Does RFK’s Confirmation Tell Us About the US and Health Care?

What Does RFK’s Confirmation Tell Us About the US and Health Care?

The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services […]

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Tracking Current Federal Changes Affecting U.S. Education and Science

Tracking Current Federal Changes Affecting U.S. Education and Science

The arrival of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president brought with it a dramatic, chaotic and generally ideological assault on the […]

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Those ‘Indirect Costs’ Targeted by DOGE Directly Support America’s Research Excellence

Those ‘Indirect Costs’ Targeted by DOGE Directly Support America’s Research Excellence

Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government. On Feb. […]

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What Would Be the Point of Abolishing the US Education Department? An Anthropologist Explains

What Would Be the Point of Abolishing the US Education Department? An Anthropologist Explains

UPDATE: On February 10, the Department of Government Efficiency, of DOGE, posted on X both that “Today, the Department of Education terminated […]

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Palestine – Donald Trump’s Vietnam?

Palestine – Donald Trump’s Vietnam?

The United States is (mostly) a great country. I have many friends there. My profession has given me opportunities to visit, travel […]

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Taking Stock of the Biden Administration’s Approach to Science Policy

Taking Stock of the Biden Administration’s Approach to Science Policy

President Joe Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 amid a devastating pandemic, with over 24 million COVID-19 cases and more than 400,000 […]

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The Age of Information Oligarchs

The Age of Information Oligarchs

David Canter compares the influence of 19th century oligarchs to those of today.

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