Category: News and Opinion

The attack on biomedical research — why should anyone care?

By Mark Guyer >> Starting on its first day in office, the Trump/Musk administration has attacked many of the basic institutions of American society in ways that are illegal, unconstitutional and un-American. Among these has been the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s, and world’s, premier medical research organization. But why should anyone care about

100 days of chaos

By William H. Freivogel >> In 100 days of chaos, President Donald J. Trump has violated laws, ignored time-tested norms, damaged the world’s most respected system of higher education, undermined the world’s leading network of medical and health research facilities, surrendered America’s important instruments of “soft power,” endangered the health of tens of thousands of

Foreign aid cuts hurt me — and all of us

By Anya Levy Guyer >> As has happened to thousands of Americans in the past two months, my job recently disappeared with a stroke of the White House autopen. I had been working on a USAID-funded contract to a U.S. university; our project was to develop online training courses for the staff of humanitarian and

How an education reporter broke the story about a college closing

By Olivia Cohen >> Before joining the Hechinger Report, Meredith Kolodner worked at different New York daily newspapers on both business and education beats. But since arriving at the Report about ten years ago, she’s been immersed in in-depth education reporting. When Kolodner first arrived at the Report she covered kindergarten through 12th grade; she