The federal judiciary cannot blockade every path to debt cancellation.

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The federal judiciary cannot blockade every path to debt cancellation.
Stephen Miller grilled me about caviar. Paul Manafort came in under a fake name. Wilbur Ross always got the cheapest wine (by the glass).
Stephen Miller grilled me about caviar. Paul Manafort came in under a fake name. Wilbur Ross always got the cheapest wine (by the glass).
Betsy DeVos managed to stay in office all four years, giving her plenty of time to do damage to our education system.
The Trump administrationâs most elitist do-nothing.
The Trump administrationâs attack on a Middle East studies program follows a familiar playbook.
But what is startling about the agencyâs threat is that it puts forth no evidence that the consortium depicts Judaismâor Christianity or any other religionânegatively. Rather, the agency seems to believe that a mere focus on Islam inherently demeans other religions. The consortium teaches Middle Eastern languages, history, and geopolitics; it also hosts conferences and events, like film festivals, to bring the regionâs culture to the community. To obtain federal funds, the program must âprovide a full understandingâ of the Middle East to students. And the Trump administration has charged its instructors with neglecting this duty by teaching extensively about Islam.
The accusation that the program is not sufficiently inclusive draws on a strategy commonly deployed by the right against cultural and academic study of marginalized groups. When Wisconsin Republicans threatened to shut down a critical race theory class at a public university, one GOP legislator asserted that the course would add âto the polarization of the races in our state.â And when South Carolina Republicans slashed funding for colleges that assigned LGBTQ-themed books, a GOP legislator explained that the literature âwas about promoting one sideâ over the other.
Tuesdayâs complaint is couched in seemingly reasonable terms, demanding âbalanceâ rather than spouting bigotry. But it is just as alarming, because it is seeking to compel speech that aligns with the administrationâs agenda. Republican-driven attempts to defund or cancel university courses have largely failed in the face of widespread backlash. The Trump administrationâs might not.
The Trump administrationâs attack on a Middle East studies program follows a familiar playbook.
The Trump administration has threatened to withdraw federal funding from the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies because it does not portray Christianity or Judaism in a sufficiently âpositiveâ light. A letter from the Department of Educationâsent on Tuesday and reported by the New York Times on Thursdayâdirected the program to emphasize âpositive aspectsâ of these and other non-Islamic religions in the Middle East. If it refuses, the department may strip the program of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Really, really awful.