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@adamhsays.com
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writer, southern. Co-host, Radio Atlantic. Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America? More: www.harrisadam.com

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 28/09/2026
read @caitlindickerson.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 17/09/2026
The plan also calls for eliminating one-fifth of currently vacant positions, combining course sections and eventually closing programs with low enrollment to reduce costs. bit.ly/4yB7MUO
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UMaine will lay off faculty and staff to make up for a $19 million budget shortfall next year
The plan also calls for eliminating one-fifth of currently vacant positions, combining course sections and eventually closing programs with low enrollment to reduce costs.
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Shomari Figures’ case, the reasons for hope are 1) the decent national environment 2) signs of Democratic enthusiasm around Alabama and 3) lackluster GOP turnout in the Wiregrass in the three elections we’ve already had this year.
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Democrats Hope Voting Rights Decision Will Drive Black Turnout in South
Black Democratic candidates for governor, the Senate and the House are hoping that attacks on Black representation will bring out Black voters in November.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Navajo professor and her students have spent years driving across the reservation testing wells & made a free map so families can find clean water. www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...
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New data added to map of safe water sources on the Navajo Nation
A professor at Northern Arizona University teamed up with Navajo communities to test water quality in remote wells. The map is meant to help tribal members still struggling with the effects of past…
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Daniel Strauss @danielstrauss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Listen to me talk with Adam Harris! open.spotify.com/episode/0j2O...
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Lanterns! Dollywood! And football season is here! featuring Adam Harris
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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An ensemble lineup, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & the late Rev. Jesse Jackson’s son, addressed the nation’s oldest and largest Black Protest denomination’s annual gathering about voting rights. @adellembanks.bsky.social on NBCUSA: religionnews.com/2026/09/11/n...
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At NBCUSA denominational meeting, leaders, advocates and AOC urge midterm voter turnout
(RNS) — ‘They're trying to make voting difficult, but you stand in line if you got to stand all day,’ said the Rev. Boise Kimber, president of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. ‘You are immovab...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The unstoppable @mhackman.bsky.social of @wsj.com reported on this over the summer, when most of us had only heard disturbing rumors.
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Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished. Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
Manuscript of forthcoming book Just Beneath the Soil: World War II Through the Eyes of Its Last Witnesses
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 10/09/2026
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs. It leaves the second-largest newspaper in Kentucky with just two reporters left to cover city and state government.
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McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 10/09/2026
“The decline is slowing; the number of humanities degrees awarded dropped 12.7 percent between 2021 and 2023, but just 2.1 percent from 2023 to 2024 and 0.4 percent between 2024 and 2025.” www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Report: Humanities Majors Disappearing
Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you don't know now you know. "The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." @bakerdphd.bsky.social
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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook
Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/09/2026
Why is there still such sludge in our bureaucratic systems? @adamhsays.com speaks with @annielowrey.bsky.social about how “time taxes” show up in our lives, and how to make our government more efficient. Listen to Radio Atlantic:
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How the Government Wastes Our Time
What do we lose in the hours spent filling out paperwork?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/09/2026
Why is there still such sludge in our bureaucratic systems? @adamhsays.com speaks with @annielowrey.bsky.social about how “time taxes” show up in our lives, and how to make our government more efficient. Listen to Radio Atlantic:
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How the Government Wastes Our Time
What do we lose in the hours spent filling out paperwork?
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Austin American-Statesman @statesman.com · 03/09/2026
UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core. bit.ly/4gPuxgu
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For @damemagazine.bsky.social's American Repair series, I spoke to experts about solutions to the student debt crisis, including debt cancellation and a college for all bill, increasing certainty through expanded aid, and much more. “I’m not kidding you, I wake up every day panicked about this.”
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The Student Debt Crisis Needs More Than Another Repayment Plan
The student debt crisis won’t be solved by repayment plans alone. Experts say affordable college, stronger financial aid, and debt cancellation are key.
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Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has purged at least 10 percent of the military’s top brass and shows no signs of slowing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Hegseth Targets 7 More Officers as His Frustrated Army Secretary Quits (Gift Article)
The defense secretary’s cuts, which have hit about 10 percent of the military’s top officers, are dividing the Pentagon, officials said.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
By 1958, the segregationist and white supremacist Citizens' Councils, formed in the months after the Brown decision, had developed an extensive media network that, was, as the historian Neil R. McMillen showed, was federally subsidized, recorded in Congressional recording studios./1
Citizens' Council Forum on TV and Radio: The American Viewpoint with a Southern Accent.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
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Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
SCOTUS says Trump can keep building the ballroom. 5-4 with Roberts leading the liberals in dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
After 90 or so years of democratization of higher ed, the race to calcify prestige hierarchies is accelerating. www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses
The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 30/08/2026
Oh wow: "[Berea] will provide every enrolled student with a fully funded degree beginning in Fall '27. The comprehensive initiative guarantees 100% of tuition, housing, food & fees without loans, allowing students to pursue their education without financial barriers" www.berea.edu/mountaineer-...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Poured myself a cup of ambition and sat down to the paper. Not bad for a girl born to be a stereotype…and Dolly, of course.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“In general,” @bakerdphd.bsky.social said, conservative states have a vision for colleges and universities “around job creation and indoctrination.” And they have become savvier, learning how institutions are really organized and “how to hit higher ed where it hurts.”
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 29/08/2026
a fun story from 2019 on the art of walking backwards www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...
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The Fine Line Campus Tour Guides Walk—Backwards
Guides are expected to serve as the face of the university and as an authentic voice for prospective students. Can they truly be both?
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My article in SABR's "National Pastime" journal on the staging of the famous Larry Doby-Steve Gromek photo from 1948 in now online. Read it here: sabr.org/journal/arti...
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The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images: The Steve Gromek-Larry Doby Photo Revisited – Society for American Baseball Research
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 27/08/2026
don’t miss @hannarosin.bsky.social‘s interview w/ Bill Gates on Radio Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI
An interview with the Microsoft co-founder about artificial intelligence, his ideas for regulation, and Jeffrey Epstein
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
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Dolly Parton Never Wavered
From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/08/2026
Links to the archival essays The Awakening of the Negro (Washington, 1896): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Of the Training of Black Men (Du Bois, 1902): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... The Fruits of Industrial Training (Washington, 1903): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Of the Training of Black Men
“What place in the future development of the South ought the negro college and college-bred man to occupy?”
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
“The four closed departments - Mexican American and Latina/o Studies; African and African Diaspora Studies; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and American Studies - encompassed 62 professors, six majors, four graduate programs, and eight minors and certificates.”
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Four UT departments are gone. Their histories span decades
Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/08/2026
And stick around for the end of the episode where I take a look at three essays from W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in the Atlantic archives and consider what they have to tell us about the purpose of education: youtu.be/0B5SPhDXv1U?...
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/08/2026
New episode! We’re talking about higher education and the “Call to Action” on Radio Atlantic this week with @jackstripling.bsky.social: youtu.be/0B5SPhDXv1U?...
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What Is College For?
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/08/2026
The Trump administration has new series of questions for colleges about affordability, curriculum, and “national service.” On this week’s Radio Atlantic, Jack Stripling, a Chronicle of Higher Education journalist, joins @adamhsays.com to discuss:
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Where Do America’s Colleges Go From Here?
The Trump administration has a new series of questions for colleges about affordability, curriculum, and “national service”—how will they respond? And: W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in a dubious battle over education, from the Atlantic archives.
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Jack Stripling @jackstripling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great to catch up with @adamhsays.com, my former colleague and an astute analyst of higher ed. Adam is doing great work @theatlantic.com, and I was thrilled to join him.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
These are courses they CUT, to be clear
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
Denise Oswald, Shanna Milkey, Rose Cronin-Jackman, Bianca Ducasse, Ciara Tomlinson, Juliane Pautrot, Demitri Papadimitropoulos, Amy Brosey, Lisa D'Agostino, Michael Collica, Tyler Comrie, Rachelle Mandik, Nicholas LoVecchio, lan Gibbs, and Lisa Kleinholz. When you buy, you support a whole team 🖖🏽
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
Making a book like this doesn't happen because of one person. There is a whole team behind producing this book and getting it out into the world, including publishers, editors, cover design, publicity, marketing and more. For The Edge of Space-Time that team includes Jessica Papin, Lisa Lucas,
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
“Sankofa! Go back and get your cosmic dreams. It is how we create ourselves and our futures.” Only $1.99 today!!! Read my bestselling book! The ebook is on sale at all US retailers, and argues that poetry and physics matter — to all of us. 📚💙🧪⚛️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
Digital deal only $1.99 today only 8/24 with the cover of the edge of space-time
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Higher ed folks and fellow parents of college students, this is a great episode! Parenting is a lesson in trust: trust someone to deliver your baby, to care for them, to teach them. And now I'm trusting the good people of higher ed to help him learn how to build a better tomorrow. #WorthIt
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/08/2026
“100 cut courses include Black Liberation Theology, Intro to Global Climate Change, Intro to Ethnic Studies, Intro to LGBT Studies, Intro to Women’s Studies, the Bible and Modern Pop Culture, the History of Jewish Food, Dante and His World Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes…”
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 24/08/2026
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Farmers Struggle to Get Basic Services From Depleted Agriculture Dept. (Gift Article)
After the departure of thousands of federal workers, rural communities report problems obtaining loans, grants, technical assistance and support for infrastructure and other services.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 24/08/2026
New episode! We’re talking about higher education and the “Call to Action” on Radio Atlantic this week with @jackstripling.bsky.social: youtu.be/0B5SPhDXv1U?...
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What Is College For?
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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