Yesterday students at Harvard University set up an encampment in Harvard Yard, protesting the university’s suspension of the ...

Dear President Nemat Minouche Shafik, As a former Columbia University faculty member and father of a Columbia graduate (PhD ’21), I am quite frankly appalled by your draconian, unethical, illegal, and ...

Insisting that the Palestine solidarity movement display “support” for Hamas inhibits the cultivation of the broad alliances ...

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

laughing at how strong he still is. When the darkness is almost complete, he sits up & recites his last poem. When I lived, it begins, in Shuj’aiyya, in Gaza, when I took the train to Jerusalem & back ...

Beauty is a hand reaching back towards the soft part of the skull.

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Cerin Lindrensavage is counsel at Protect Democracy. She works on advocacy, research, and litigation related to preventing efforts to undermine elections and the democratic process.

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