Boston-based U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor further restricted the Trump administration from requiring universities to provide admissions data in an April 24 ruling.
The U.S. Education Department...
Sarah Sherman-Stokes was 22 years old and working as a Spanish interpreter for a deportation defense nonprofit when she visited a detention center in Virginia.
There, she sat across from a woman her...
By Kai Godwin, Opinion Co-Editor
• February 12, 2026
Reputational damage is simply not enough for the atrocities committed by numerous elites. True political accountability cannot be selective or partisan, and it collapses when leadership treats justice as a political liability.
Students from more than 10 Boston universities gathered Saturday to fight against the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education during the Educational Freedom Project’s Students Rally for Light, Truth and Courage.
Government officials, health care providers and patients rallied outside of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Seaport on Wednesday in support of Planned Parenthood and reproductive health care access.
By Anika Kapasi, City Co-Editor
• October 29, 2025
Mayor Michelle Wu hosted the first-ever State of the Schools address Tuesday night, sharing the Boston Public Schools’ achievements and future ambitions amid underperforming test scores and major education funding cuts by the Trump administration.
By Liam Dunne, Managing Co-Editor
• October 24, 2025
After the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sued U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Aug. 16 for violating First Amendment rights on behalf of The Stanford Daily, student news publications across the country took action.
Since President Donald Trump began his second term in office, he has targeted universities across the country — whether it be through funding freezes, student and faculty censorship or, in Harvard University’s case, lawsuits.
Recently, the Trump administration called for Harvard to invest about $500 million in building trade and vocational schools as part of an initiative to “refocus young Americans on career preparation” instead of on higher education, which Trump called an “economically unproductive postsecondary system.”
Nonprofits across Massachusetts have been thrust into financial turmoil amid broad slashes to federal funding, leaving their leaders scrambling to keep organizations afloat.
Since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiated Operation Patriot 2.0 Sept. 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have conducted a series of raids across Boston neighborhoods.
By Phoebe Miller, Associate City Editor
• September 19, 2025
The Trump administration is reconsidering a permit for an offshore wind farm south of Nantucket, emphasizing a looming threat to Massachusetts’ clean energy movement.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 11 sent shockwaves across higher education, leaving universities grappling with the implications of escalating political violence.
