What’s Left of The New School?
Jeremy Varon Dissent The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington. It has been tough times for…
The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children
Alan Macleod MintPress News PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children…
The New School Investigates Student Leaders Who Voted To Strip Hillel Of Funding Over Genocide Complicity
Student senators say they faced backlash from university administration following attacks by pro-Israel groups Biplob Kumar Das Prism When members of The New School’s Student Senate were faced with a…
Commencement 2026: Sweet Sorrow and the Privilege of Letting Go
Austin Sarat ScheerPost My college, Amherst College, held its Commencement on Saturday, May 23. Like similar events across the country, our ceremony marks a new beginning for the graduates. But…
Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”
By Jesse Hagopian This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats. Seated behind the Resolute…
Autocracy, Confusion and Teaching History Part Two
Jim Mamer ScheerPost History is not old, especially with people still living with its consequences. Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Comments on Directing August Wilson’s Fences 2026 Part One Available Here Part…
In New Campus Tactic, The New School Students Sanction Group Over Israeli Military Program
By Joseph Mogul This article was originally published by Truthout Hillel has come under fire for coordinating programs that send students to Israel to volunteer with the military. Ryder Glickman’s…
Amendments Protecting Pro-Palestine Speech in California Schools Face Backlash
By Marianne Dhenin This article was originally published by Truthout Educators and activists are fighting for changes to a bill they say was “designed to create an atmosphere of fear.”…
China Surpasses US in Research Spending – The Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
In a span of a few years, China has outstripped the U.S. in scientific publications, spending and patents. AP Photo/Andy Wong Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University China’s rapid rise…
Palestinian Students Are Fighting For Their Right To Education
Ashley Ver Beek for Waging Nonviolence As the Israeli occupation targets academic institutions, Palestinian students resist scholasticide. While calling for tangible international solidarity. The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits…
Philadelphia’s Abolition School Taps The ‘radical Potential’ Of Political Education
Officially known as the W.E.B. Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, the organization grounds local organizers in historical knowledge, theory, and rigorous analysis Adryan Corcione Prism Political education plays a…
Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know
Jim Rodenbush for Project Censored I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to…
When We Fight For Public Schools, we Fight For Democracy
A “non-permission slip” is the first step in a new nationwide campaign training thousands of local organizers to defend public education. Kumar Rao Waging Nonviolence Every morning, across the nation,…
A Court Ordered Trump’s Department of Education to Roll Back Its Anti-DEI Efforts. Why haven’t Universities Reversed Course?
Last month, the department conceded that it could not make universities’ race-conscious efforts illegal, but universities nationwide have yet to reinstate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts Meghnad Bose and…
When a Deportation Case Falls Apart, Free Speech Is on Trial
Posted by Joshua Scheer In an era of hypercharged politics and hardened rhetoric around immigration, it is easy for individual cases to blur into abstraction. But every so often, one…