Education
Carnegie Mellon Must Provide Discovery About Relationship with Qatar, in Ex-Student's Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Semitism
The student was explaining the concept of an eruv, a feature of certain Jewish neighborhoods, in class to an architecture professor, who allegedly said the time the student had spent on project "would have been better spent if [Ms. Canaan] had instead explored 'what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.'" …
An Immigration Judge Finds No Legal Basis To Deport a Student Arrested for an Op-Ed
Rumeysa Ozturk is one of several international students targeted by the Trump administration's speech-based deportation policy.
San Francisco Public Schoolteachers Make $79,468 for 184 Days of Work. Now They're Striking for Even More.
All of San Francisco's public schools were shut down Monday thanks to the United Educators strike.
So Much for Abolishing the Department of Education
The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department's closure.
Conference for Arms Law Scholars
Have your paper critiqued by experts from all perspectives at the 2026 Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference
Why Mamdani's 'Free Child Care' Won't Work
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
School Choice Week: Arizona Milestone Marks Growing Popularity of School Choice
Over 100,000 students use the state’s portable education funds for private schools and homeschooling.
D.C. Public Schools Still Closed as City Struggles To Clear Roads and Sidewalks
As the district's struggle to clear snow drags on, the case for public infrastructure maintenance becomes weaker.
It's OK To Use Sports as an Escape From Politics
We don’t have to treat everything as political, even if politics has a meddlesome hand in everything.
Uvalde Cop's Acquittal Shows Why It's Hard To Criminalize Failing To Stop a Mass Shooting
A Texas jury found Adrian Gonzales not guilty of endangering children by failing to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary School.
Yes, the Middle Class Is Shrinking—Because It's Moving Up
The real squeeze comes from government-distorted markets, not economic decline.
Ohio State Student's Posts Urging "Resistance and Escalation" in Response to Israel's Actions in Gaza Protected by First Amendment
So holds a court, reversing student Guy Christensen's "disenrollment." The student also wrote, responding to the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in D.C. outside the Capital Jewish Museum, "I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials."
Brett Kavanaugh Is Rightly Skeptical of a Nationwide Ruling on Trans Athletes
State lawmakers should be more skeptical of overly broad laws, too.
Constitutional to Expel Law Student for Writing "[W]hatever Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev Meant by … '[A]bolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary' … Must Be Done with Jews"
An Eleventh Circuit panel concludes (by a 2-1 vote) that this is likely the right result.
Texas A&M Removes Plato from Introductory Philosophy Class
New "gender ideology" rule has predictable results
A School District Cop Allegedly Did Nothing To Stop the Uvalde Mass Shooting. Was That Failure a Crime?
Adrian Gonzales is on trial for acts of "omission" that prosecutors say amounted to 29 felony counts of child endangerment.
How the Trump Administration Quietly and Quickly Took Over 3 Golf Courses in Washington, D.C.
Plus: Thank capitalism for the best parts of college football bowl season
NYC Schools Are Losing Students and Burning Cash. Mamdani Could Make the Situation Worse.
New York schools need more choice and better curricula, but the city's new mayor wants to take choices away.
6 Ways Sports and Politics Will Collide in 2026
From college sports to league expansion, politicians are going to have plenty of sway over sports next year.
Mamdani's $6 Billion Child Care Expansion Would Be a Handout to Wealthy New Yorkers
The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
Why College Students Prefer Socialism—and Why They're Wrong
When the media say the middle class is in decline, they're technically right—because people are getting richer.
Tariffs Are Leaving Fewer Footballs, Golf Clubs, and Toys Under the Christmas Tree
Plus: College Football Playoff complaints and an awful NFL officiating blunder.
The 9th Circuit Upholds a University of Washington Professor's Right to Mock 'Land Acknowledgments'
The appeals court ruled that administrators violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment rights when they investigated and threatened to punish him for constitutionally protected speech.
UW Professor's Parody of Land Acknowledgment in Class Syllabus Protected by First Amendment
"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor."
Was There a Woke War on White Millennial Men?
In Compact, Jacob Savage exhaustively documents discrimination in the name of equity.
This Tennessee Man Spent 37 Days in Jail for Sharing an Anti-Trump Meme. He Says the Cops Should Pay for That.
Larry Bushart's lawyers argue that his arrest for constitutionally protected speech violated the First and Fourth amendments.
George Mason University Scalia Law School Dean Search
Your chance to apply to be a law school dean!
Funding College Sports With Private Equity Is Way Better Than Hitting Students With Higher Fees
Plus: Fix the NBA Cup by blowing it up, World Cup ticket prices or lotteries, and more.
Young People's Mental Health Is Improving. Tech Alarmists Take Note.
Depression and anxiety are declining, adding yet more complications to the anti-smartphone and anti–social media narratives.
Shootings at Bondi and Brown
Plus: Chile elects a right-winger, Jimmy Lai gets convicted, midair collision narrowly averted, and more...
How Foreign Governments Police U.S. Speech
Sarah McLaughlin reveals how foreign governments pressure American universities through speech codes and satellite campuses, and examines the broader threat international authoritarianism poses to free expression.
Survey: 91 Percent of College Students Think 'Words Can Be Violence.' That Could Feed Real Violence.
But there's a silver lining—sort of.
If FIFA Doesn't Want People To Think It's Corrupt, It Should Stop Doing Things That Look Corrupt
Plus: Are college football bowl games dead, and can the playoff be fixed?
Washington Post: "Trump's Attack on DEI May Hurt College Men, Particularly White Men"
Yet the facts in the article would equally have supported the headline, "Elite Private Colleges Apparently Hurt College-Bound Women, Trump May Stop That."