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On August 22, 2025, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was murdered on the Charlotte light rail. The victim, Iryna Zarutska, was repeatedly stabbed and left to bleed out. The exceptional brutality of it captured national attention.…
Julia Johnson writes for the Washington Examiner about President Biden’s hopes for the South Carolina presidential primary. President Joe Biden heads into his 2024 reelection bid bleeding support from minority…
Editors at the Washington Examiner call for ending the “gravy train” for American universities that fail to protect free speech. University administrations still aren’t getting the message that colleges should…
The Center Square has details of the “The Research Institute for Scholars of Equity” or RISE program: In 2016 under the Obama administration, the federal government awarded its first five-year grant of…
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about the uncertainty surrounding the fall term at colleges and universities. Colleges across the country are preparing for potential spikes in coronavirus cases…
Jody Lipford and Jerry Slice write for the Martin Center about universities with high levels of spending on sports. In 2017, Clemson spent over $46 million, or 42 percent of…
Cutting red tape would overwhelm any Bathroom Bill impacts
TIME devotes its latest cover story to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul‘s recent political maneuvers. The tattooed and pierced longhairs never showed up to see Senator Rand Paul speak with students…
On the campaign trail in 1912, former Princeton University president Woodrow Wilson argued that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution had outlived their usefulness. Now Hans von Spakovsky reports for…
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s treatment of researcher and learning specialist Mary Willingham, whose “analysis of academically at-risk athletes at UNC-Chapel Hill showed that more than half…
From the Associated Press (emphasis mine): South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge. Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was…
Duke University professor Orin Starn makes writes on the “controversy” at the University of South Carolina where head football coach Steve Spurrier threatened to resign if the school did not…