THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ACTIONS ON HIGHER EDUCATION
(This letter (from Jeffrey R. Andrade, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy, Planning, and Innovation) provides information about the immediate implementation of certain provisions impacting Federal Student Aid Title IV programs under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.) On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful…
2026 starts mandatory free, immediate, and public access to all federally funded research
By Dane S. Claussen Dec. 31, 2025, is the deadline for all U.S. federal agencies to ensure that publications and their supporting data resulting from federally funded research are publicly accessible without any embargo on their free and public release. Starting in 2013, the White House Office of Science and…
The Trump Administration’s actions on higher education
What appears below is a round-up of the major decisions, documents and other actions since Jan. 20 that have been undertaken by the Trump Administration that affect US higher education. It does not purport to be a comprehensive list, nor to offer various perspectives about whether the actions are good,…
Shielding Democracy from Putin’s S/Words
During the Cold War, Soviet Russia employed self-glorifying rhetoric to create a master narrative that was used to justify expanding Soviet hegemony and communism. Having previously forced the Soviet geo-political and ideological totality on 14 republics (Ukraine among them), after WWII the USSR started liberating Eastern Europe by occupying countries…
Contextualizing China’s Threats against Taiwan
The United States, China, and Taiwan are locked in a communication impasse that feels destined for disaster. If we hope to avoid a catastrophe, then coming to a better understanding of the nuances of U.S.-China-Taiwan communication stands among the most pressing issues in the age of globalization and as one…
Incitement and the President: Defining the Law
On February 13, 2021, 57 Senators, including seven Republicans, voted to convict ex-President Donald Trump. That number was ten shy of the number needed for a conviction on the one charge in the impeachment article: incitement to insurrection. However, the impeachment trial left us with several questions: What led the…
Did President Trump Incite Insurrection? The Causal Connection Between Words and Deeds
On January 6, 2021, then President Donald Trump spoke to a group of his supporters who had come to Washington, DC, to “protest” the outcome of the 2020 election. In his speech, Trump implored his supporters to march down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol in order to express their outrage…
America’s Horror Story: Trump and the Invisible Enemy
The Trump administration’s response to COVID-19 can be characterized as disjointed, to put it mildly, or as chaotic, to be less charitable. President Trump has routinely contradicted the advice from the officials of the Centers for Disease Control, explained away the high number of cases as only the result of…