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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."

Phillip Levine discusses the fact that the U.S. birth rate is falling fast. For a population to remain stable, women, on average, have to have 2.1 kids. In the U.S., that number is 1.6, and dropping.

Tuition hikes will follow the higher endowment tax. “We’re already seeing evidence that institutions are raising their sticker prices more than they have been in the past,” Phillip Levine told CNBC.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.