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Congressional Hearings on Campus Anti-Semitism Need to Have a Point

For Americans living in the age of social media and instant clicks, Washington often feels like a nonstop, partisan version of the Jerry Springer Show. A recent Time article about the long-running show—which aired from 1991 to 2018—described its format as a place “where guests went on to discuss their deepest, darkest secrets and confront […]

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Campus Due Process, Obama-Style

In this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Joseph Cohn, director of policy at FIRE, summarizes the due process implications of a letter sent to colleges and universities last April by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. As was widely reported at the time, the letter instructs schools to adopt the lowest standard of […]

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