"Even universities with endowments valued over just $5 billion, on average, spend less than 5 percent of that each year. If they won’t spend their wealth to defend their academic missions, what are they hoarding it for?" Charlie Eaton New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opi…

"Radical change does not come for free. It commands a price that so often is paid by the children of the revolution," Ed Pilkington The Guardian. For the past 2 years, he talked to 9 Panther cubs -- the children of Black Panther members -- across the US theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

👇🏾Bolsonaro, Ramagem, Anderson Torres, Mauro Cid, generais Braga Netto, Heleno e Paulo Sérgio, almirante Garnier tornados réus pela 1° Turma do STF por tentativa de golpe de Estado, entre outros crimes. g1.globo.com/politica/notic… GloboNews

Greene says she will call for the defunding and dismantling of entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting - which distributes federal $ to public tv and radio stations, PBS & (to a lesser extent) NPR "You can hate us on your own time," she says, before gaveling hearing closed

“Part of the reason I do my work is because I want to create my own history,” Edel Rodriguez. The Harman Program writer Baruch College has created about 250 magazine covers, many iconic ones featuring Donald J. Trump

The Student Press Law Center and 10 other free speech and journalism organizations have released a letter condemning the detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk reportedly based on opinions expressed in a student paper op-ed.

"I was annoyed and outraged," Sewell Chan, on how he felt about The Associated Press being banned from the White House press pool. "The AP publishes reliable, non partisan news" and it's free. "They did not deserve this nonsense." Chan joined Dollars & Sense editor Regina Martinez Baruch Weissman

While high tariffs in Brazil have kept some jobs in the country, they have also driven up costs for consumers and helped make the country’s industry inefficient wsj.com/economy/trade/…

The AP says its journalists were barred from an Oval Office event featuring Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction (Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill) thehill.com/homenews/media… mediagazer.com/250414/p11#a25…

Harvard University has rejected the Trump administration's demands for policy changes, putting nearly $9 billion in federal funding at risk cnn.it/3EpksYl

'Congestion pricing is working': MTA says tolls keeping 82k drivers a day out of Manhattan gothamist.com/news/congestio…

Yesterday, I was fired by Columbia University. Here’s my statement, part 1:

As part of the expansion of immigration fees: -- $1,000 asylum application fee -- the first in U.S. history -- $1,000 fee for individuals paroled into the U.S. -- $3,500 fee for sponsors of unaccompanied children -- $2,500 penalty for sponsors of unaccompanied children who fail

Most of my long-form fiction and journalistic podcast work was done with audio-wizard Sandra Lopez-Monsalve 🌻. One of our greatest champions has been Jocelyn Gonzales. It was a pleasure talking to hers and Ellen Horne's students New York University, Juan Diego Ramírez Bre Banks and other Baruch Weissman

"I felt ready to dig into my personal life again," Ian Coss told my Baruch Weissman class, about his new podcast We are Doing the Whiz Radiotopia Tribeca Audio. Forever is a Long Time, his 2021 podcast about divorce, got 800K downloads. tribecafilm.com/films/radiotop…

"We will vigorously defend our right to provide essential news, information and life-saving services to the American public. We will challenge this Executive Order using all means available," NPR CEO Katherine Maher npr.org/2025/05/02/g-s…

“The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children,” Bill Gates on Elon Musk's DOGE David Wallace-Wells The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/08/mag…

"I was going to be a cop," Uber Bautista said, but he fell in love with English and writing The City University of New York's John Jay. Now he oversees social video for Morning Brew ☕️. He told my Baruch Weissman class that personality and a sense of humor are key to their content, which targets ages 18 to 26.

I first heard about Lead, the podcast, at Tribeca Audio. Truly enjoyed listening to this story about something that affects 30% of children worldwide. Written by Shannon Burkett, the mom whose son was contaminated with lead when he was a baby. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lea…