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Economics professor Phillip Levine writes: “A giant endowment-tax increase is coming. Whether it merely hampers or severely burdens affected institutions seems to be the only remaining question.”

Jasmine Guillory ’97 writes for the Times about her favorite romance novels that use the “fake dating” trope. Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.

Narges Bojoghli ‘04, anthropology/middle east studies professor at John Hopkins: “The most ardent proponents of regime change in Iran may be accelerating the very nuclear program they claim to fear.”

Historian Kellie Carter Jackson joins CBS Mornings to explain the origins of Juneteenth and how it fits into the broader story of Black resistance, as explored in her new book, “We Refuse.”

Economist Phil Levine developed his price calculator to help families understand the cost of a degree without deciphering complex aid formulas. Colleges are queuing up to use it.

Professor Jennifer Chudy says “explicitly racialized politics” have become normalized: “I think the person in the White House has emboldened people who may have felt silently sympathetic in the past.”

“If you’re not from a high-income family, there’s not a lot to look forward to in terms of college costs going forward, given these policies,” says economist Phil Levine, who studies college pricing.

WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends the books she’s looking forward to including a new book by Kate Price, associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women.

Paula A. Johnson called on the new physicians and dentists to exercise “an important form of citizenship” by translating their scientific expertise… to uphold “Veritas” in an “atmosphere of mistrust.”