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A crowd of students in graduation robes protest as they walk out from the George Washington University commencement ceremony and onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Three women standing closest to the camera shout, with the two on either side of the woman in the middle holding up a Palestinian flag behind her.
A crowd of students in graduation robes protest as they walk out from the George Washington University commencement ceremony and onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Three women standing closest to the camera shout, with the two on either side of the woman in the middle holding up a Palestinian flag behind her.

Campus Protests Reflect Impatience With U.S. Foreign Policy

The Biden administration’s disavowal of students’ concerns will only make things worse.

Graduating students attend the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York on May 18, 2016.
Graduating students attend the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York on May 18, 2016.

When Knowledge Stops at the Water’s Edge

Fears about foreign contacts and security clearances are making America’s future diplomats and policymakers less worldly and more insular.

Pro-Palestinian protesters walk from Columbia University down to Hunter College as protests at area universities and colleges continue on May 6, in New York City.
Pro-Palestinian protesters walk from Columbia University down to Hunter College as protests at area universities and colleges continue on May 6, in New York City.

Are Campus Protesters Heroes or Hypocrites?

As universities take center stage in the debate over Israel’s war in Gaza, the unrest could spell trouble for Biden’s reelection campaign.

A person with a black glove holds up a sign that reads "DECOLONIZE PALESTINE LAND BACK."
A person with a black glove holds up a sign that reads "DECOLONIZE PALESTINE LAND BACK."

No, College Curriculums Aren’t Too Focused on Decolonization

Critics of campus demonstrations are aiming at the wrong target. We need to study more history, not less.

A broken glass box at the looted Kherson Regional Museum after the Russian withdrawal from the city on Dec. 22, 2022.
A broken glass box at the looted Kherson Regional Museum after the Russian withdrawal from the city on Dec. 22, 2022.

Russia Is Committing Cultural Genocide in Ukraine

Historical falsification, youth indoctrination, and the plunder of artifacts reveal the Kremlin’s true objectives.

People walk along Shanghai's Bund waterfront with skyscrapers of the Lujiazui financial district in the background.
People walk along Shanghai's Bund waterfront with skyscrapers of the Lujiazui financial district in the background.

A Grim Year for the Chinese Economy

How the sharp slowdown has impacted young people, the military, and more.

Gay is seen sitting behind a table with a desk microphone and a placard featuring her name.
Gay is seen sitting behind a table with a desk microphone and a placard featuring her name.

Defining Away Palestinians’ Right to Resist

What does it mean to say that rising up against injustice is impermissible?

A view of a sign for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on July 08, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A view of a sign for the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on July 08, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Do Policy Schools Still Have a Point?

Reflections of a career-long public policy professor at a time of global upheaval.

Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov (right), wearing a suit and tie, holds a new history book for high school students at a news conference in Moscow. Behind him out of focus are two other suited men, one with his hand to his face.
Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov (right), wearing a suit and tie, holds a new history book for high school students at a news conference in Moscow. Behind him out of focus are two other suited men, one with his hand to his face.

New Russian Schoolbooks Preach Hatred of Ukraine and the West

The Kremlin has taken indoctrination and historical falsification to a new level.

Protesters gather in front of the French Embassy.
Protesters gather in front of the French Embassy.

How the West Could Actually Help the Sahel

For years, Western policies have only paid lip service to seeing the Sahel in terms of its own immense problems.

University students display a flag of the Communist Party of China to mark the party's 100th anniversary during an opening ceremony of the new semester in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Sept. 10, 2021.
University students display a flag of the Communist Party of China to mark the party's 100th anniversary during an opening ceremony of the new semester in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Sept. 10, 2021.

Has China Peaked?

A debate on whether Beijing’s economic woes are temporary or terminal.

People walk in front of building 10 on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
People walk in front of building 10 on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese students queue to take the National College Entrance Examination at a high school in Beijing.
Chinese students queue to take the National College Entrance Examination at a high school in Beijing.

How China’s Education System Trapped a Generation

Young people have been trained into competition and hopelessness.

Children perform during a Chinese New Year celebration in a Mandarin immersion program at Marian Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel, California.
Children perform during a Chinese New Year celebration in a Mandarin immersion program at Marian Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel, California.

Have Mandarin Immersion Schools Lost Their Luster?

Striving parents once saw it as the language of the future, but attitudes to school immersion programs in the U.S. are changing.

Afghan children read the Quran at a madrassa, an Islamic school, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Afghan children read the Quran at a madrassa, an Islamic school, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

School Is in for the Taliban’s New Model Army

Extremist curriculum is teaching children how to hate, not how to think.

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