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“Some even more punitive proposals were passed over, but this will still sting,” writes economist Phillip Levine for The Chronicle. "Yes, your head should be spinning trying to make sense of it all."

“Highly endowed colleges are the least expensive college options for [low income] students,” economist Phillip Levine told The Nation. “They are able to do that because of their large endowments.”

Since Trump’s inauguration, the government has scrubbed information about Black historical figures and other minorities from a number of its websites. Kellie Carter Jackson unpacks why.

Many countries now face a rapidly aging population that could begin to shrink. "There's just, relatively speaking, no children being born in South Korea," said economist Phillip Levine.

According to projections from Wellesley environmental researchers, the bill threatens 4,500 clean energy projects, puts hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk, and could add billions to energy bills.

Novelist Jasmine Guillory ’97 along with more than 70 writers wrote an open letter about AI to literary publishers, demanding that publishing houses never release books that were created by machines.

Paula Johnson said that the idea of academic freedom goes back to 19th-century Berlin and the first modern research university. German intellectuals argued the pursuit of knowledge requires freedom.

“America the Beautiful” by poet Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley College literature professor and class of 1880 alumna, is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker John de Graaf.

Bipartisan pushback yielded a win for nature preservation. “There’s no question that the long history of public lands protection in the United States has been a bipartisan effort,” said Jay Turner.