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The crackdown on protesters at Columbia and elsewhere lays bare the challenge of balancing academic freedom with student safety. Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest of more than 100 protesters,…

The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa. Pierre Poilievre speaks at a protest against a Federal Carbon Tax increase on March 27, 2024.…

What we know — and what we don’t — about the mass graves at Gaza hospitals. Gazan teams, civil defense, crime scene investigation, and forensics continue to carry out investigation at the scene after Israeli siege and attacks that destroyed…

Trump allies newly indicted in Arizona, testimony continuing in New York, and the Supreme Court hearing arguments in DC. Former US President Donald Trump exits his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on…

It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter. Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed…

The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case. Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S.…

The fight over “ghost guns” is back before the justices. Confiscated guns on display at Attorney General Letitia James’s announcement that the Attorney General’s Office, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Police Department, and State Police took down ghost guns and…

And for decades, schools have tried to crack down on their activism. Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and to protest the sale of US jets to Israel in this October…

But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so. An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s head as the group blocks an intersection…

The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained. Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus last week and have sparked demonstrations at other universities across the country. The…