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Why the White House Backed Down From Its First Big Education Cuts
NEWS | 10 January 2026
On the campaign trail, Trump’s promise to “send education back to the states” was often greeted with applause, and the Supreme Court has allowed the president to go ahead with his plans to gut the Education Department. In arguing for the dismantling of the Education Department, Trump has asserted that America’s schoolchildren have fallen further behind their global peers since the department’s creation, in 1979. Officials in California, which had been expecting almost $1 billion from the federal funds, abruptly paused operations for a teacher-training program. The White House and the Education Department did not respond to requests for comment about the funds. On Thursday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill that rejected Trump’s plan to scale down the Education Department.

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Scammers Are Coming for College Students
NEWS | 10 January 2026
Among other things, it administers the $1.7 trillion federal-student-loan portfolio and distributes $31 billion in Pell Grants to low-income college students every year. The point of federal student loans is to give students access to credit that they can’t get in the private market. Many students learned during interviews with Education Department inspectors that they owed tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. One processed requests from new colleges to become eligible for federal student aid and recertified existing colleges on a six-year schedule. Meanwhile, the people who make a living off of unsuspecting college students are lying in wait.

World:
Can This Man Save Harvard?
NEWS | 10 January 2026
The Harvard president had been warned that something was coming. To the Trump administration, it was as if Harvard were a rogue regime that needed to be brought to heel. Inside the board, a consensus was quietly forming: Harvard didn’t need another presidential search. By resisting Trump, Harvard further provoked him. To save Harvard, to recover its legitimacy, he must succeed in both of the campaigns that he is waging in defense of liberalism.

Current Events:
Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment
NEWS | 10 January 2026
As university presidents contort themselves to respond to campus anti-Semitism, they seem to be replicating the DEI push of the past decade, bureaucracy and all. Harvard University is also implementing new trainings, evaluating its administrative complaint structure, and adopting a more expansive definition of anti-Semitism. Giving anti-Semitism the DEI treatment is also ironic: Universities are instituting these policies under pressure from the Trump administration, which is simultaneously engaged in an effort to root out DEI from governing and educational institutions across the country. Under President Donald Trump, campus anti-Semitism has also been a pretext to wage war on universities. The notion that some version of the DEI bureaucracy is appropriate for anti-Semitism and only anti-Semitism is nonsensical.

News Flash:
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
NEWS | 10 January 2026
The number of Duke students enrolled in introductory computer-science courses has dropped about 20 percent over the past year. He triple-majored in computer science, math, and computational science at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has completed the coursework for a computer-science Ph.D. In the ultimate irony, candidates like Gropp might be unable to get jobs working on AI because AI itself is taking the jobs. “It could be AI, but we just don’t know.”Enrollment in the computer-science major has historically fluctuated with the job market. Sam Madden, a computer-science professor at MIT, told me that even if companies are employing generative AI, that will likely create more demand for software engineers, not less.

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How to Age Up
NEWS | 10 January 2026
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America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein
NEWS | 10 January 2026
I had set out to find the protein bar I kept hearing about, only to find a row of empty boxes. Pushed to the back of one carton, gleaming in its gold wrapper, was a single Salted Peanut Butter David Protein Bar. Everything is protein now: There are protein chips and protein ice creams and cinnamon protein Cheerios. The low rattle of protein mania—the protein matchas and protein Pop-Tarts and protein seasonings to sprinkle on your protein chicken cubes—can be as maddening as it is inescapable. We counted calories, grams of fat, carbohydrates, trying to distill the messy science of nutrition into one single quantitative metric.

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The Pitt Is a Brilliant Portrait of American Failure
NEWS | 10 January 2026
The Pitt, HBO Max’s hospital-set drama, back for a second season, is a throwback in every sense of the word: formulaic, propulsive, topical. Read: The Pitt has revolutionized the medical dramaSome might call The Pitt preachy. I’d argue, rather, that The Pitt has an emphatic moral clarity that feels awkward only because we haven’t seen it for so long. There’s simply no way to watch The Pitt and feel good about the way society is currently functioning. The show can be funny, the camaraderie among the characters is gratifying, and the doctors are extraordinarily good-looking in the way only TV doctors can be.

This Just In:
The 17th-Century Philosopher Who Helps Explain Stephen Miller
NEWS | 10 January 2026
The 17th-century philosophers each offered a picture of human nature in its rawest form, and they came to different conclusions. Whether a leader is Lockean or Hobbesian really does set the table for the kind of government they want. Comments this week from Stephen Miller, the influential deputy chief of staff often cast as the president’s “brain,” only reinforced this impression. This was his Leviathan, an earthly sovereign power that humans rationally create to escape the chaos of the state of nature. If Miller was trying to channel Hobbes, this would be a break with a very old American tradition of wariness about the philosopher.

Today:
Trump Is Not Playing Five-Dimensional Chess in Venezuela
NEWS | 10 January 2026
During his TV appearances the day after the raid, Rubio, like Trump, emphasized oil over democracy as the operation’s “No. His supporters have a tendency to say that he’s playing five-dimensional chess, only to discover too late that he has eaten half the pieces. Western apathy and cowardice are what embolden thugs and authoritarians, not the United States giving them a taste of their own medicine. The world’s dictators and terrorists commit acts of aggression not because the United States does, but when the United States and its allies don’t stop them. No one likes the idea of the United States as a global policeman, especially after the disastrous occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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This Will Happen Again
NEWS | 10 January 2026
On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a woman in the face. Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom of three, had stopped her maroon SUV on a snowy street crawling with ICE officials. Good seems to have moved slowly as she tried to maneuver around the agents surrounding her car. After appearing to first wave for someone to move, she reversed slightly and turned away from the agents to continue down the street. A man announcing himself as a physician ran toward the scene to attempt to render first aid, but an ICE agent commanded him to step back.

World:
From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
NEWS | 10 January 2026
Once again, ICE officers and protesters square off amid a snarl of vehicles jutting out at odd angles. In September, Border Patrol agents shot and killed a cook from Mexico, Silverio Villegas González, as he tried to drive away from them near Chicago. The following month, a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez, a Chicago day-care worker who survived and drove away to seek medical care. Yesterday, a day after Good’s killing, Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon, shot a husband and wife from Venezuela near a hospital. Last month, a jury convicted Muñoz-Guatemala of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

Current Events:
ICE Wasn’t Always Like This
NEWS | 10 January 2026
On Wednesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and a U.S. citizen, in the streets of Minneapolis. As my colleague Caitlin Dickerson explains in her latest story, the president and his advisers have exerted “overwhelming pressure” on immigration enforcement. Will Gottsegen: To what extent is ICE no longer subject to some of the guardrails that once helped keep it in check? The pressure that ICE officers are facing is unprecedented, and it’s not just the pressure to carry out as many deportations as possible—the administration is actually celebrating aggression. Will: How does this pressure on ICE officers affect immigration-enforcement operations?

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