Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this policy had been enacted when I was an international student, it
Apropos the two post from yesterday on COVID-19 and education, three Georgetown professors – Shweta Bansal, Colin Carlson and John Kraemer – have a piece in the Washington Post arguing against bri
I am not a psychologist. I understand that, even for professionals, remote diagnoses are deeply problematic. I recall how Republicans insisted that Obama was a narcissist because, first, his speechwri
Greg Sargent sums up where we’re at. The Trump administration has given up any pretense of trying to address the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health problem. Rather, it intends to treat it as a
Scott already posted about Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Not long after Trump announced his decision, Beijing offered its own moral and financial su
Over at the Duck of Minerva, two Indiana University professors – Jeffrey C. Isaac and W. Kindred Winecoff – have a post about the petition they’ve been circulating to protect the integrity o
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, know that the compilation below is remarkable – and even more so when one looks closely at the dates. What can we say? There’s no bottom to the
Daniel McDowell, Aditi Sahasrabuddhe and Kindred Winecoff have a terrific explainer on what the Fed is doing in the face of growing global economic crisis. They focus on four points: The Fed quickly m