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The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025. The Trump administration on June 30, 2025, accused Harvard of violating the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students. Rick Friedman / AFP

Academic own goal: Trump’s war on universities weakens the US

The president and his base dislike the liberal bastions of America's elite campuses so have cut billions in funding. Whether they fight back or capitulate, this is only going to harm the US economy

Christopher Phillips 31 July 2025
 A protester holds a sign reading "There are no universities left in Gaza" amid the commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Libby O'Neill / AFP

Campus cacophony: Trump stamps on academic freedoms

Billions of dollars in federal funding have been withheld from universities where Gaza protests were staged, ostensibly for reasons of antisemitism. What will the impact be?

Khaled Yousri 01 June 2025
People hold signs as they participate in a protest in support of Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil while a hearing takes place outside the court in Newark, New Jersey, on March 28, 2025. Kena Betancur / AFP

Trump wants to deport foreign students for what they say

He says his power over immigration overrides the First Amendment

The Economist 14 April 2025

American students protest Israel's war on Gaza

Fares Garabet 06 May 2024
With politics never far from the classroom or lecture hall, Prof. Daniel Gordon’s new book offers a historical peek into the debate on academic freedom in the US from 1915 to the present day.

New book highlights limits to academic freedom in America

With politics never far from the classroom or lecture hall, Prof. Daniel Gordon's new book offers a historical peek into the debate on academic freedom in the US from 1915 to the present day

Emad al-Ahmad 17 January 2024
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Why siccing Syria's army on Hezbollah is so dangerous

28 June 2026

If Trump's idea is implemented, it would all but certainly further undermine regional stability and US interests in the Middle East

David Schenker
Neil Webb
Science & Technology

The G7 grapples with the politics of AI access

23 June 2026

As advanced AI models become strategic assets, the G7 is confronting difficult questions of access, dependence, and control

Marco Mossad
Massad Boulos, Trump's Middle East advisor, speaks at the Libya Energy and Economic Summit at the Tripoli International Conference Centre in Tripoli on 24 January, 2026. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
Politics

US plan for Libya: unification or management of division?

26 June 2026

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

Areig Elhag
Grace Russell
Business & Economy

The World Cup is helping boost the Arab hospitality sector

26 June 2026

Owing to time-zone differences, the tournament is creating a new spending cycle for cafés and restaurants in Arab cities

Mohamed Sharki
Culture & Social Affairs

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

22 June 2026

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey

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