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A Sanctioned Chinese Entity Finds a Friend in Harvard. Plus, Trump Moves To Unmask Foreign Nationals Funding US Universities.

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A different kind of sanctions relief: Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with China’s national health insurer in 2019 to offer an annual “training course on health financing.” Included in the inaugural training were officials from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a state-run “paramilitary group.” The United States sanctioned the XPCC

US Universities Don’t Like Unmasking Their Foreign Donors. A New Trump Order Aims To Make Them.

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For decades, federal law has required U.S. universities to disclose the sources of large foreign donations to the federal government. But the Biden administration sparsely enforced the law, allowing foreign nationals from adversarial countries to funnel cash to top American schools and stay anonymous. In some cases, it’s unclear whether the schools themselves are keeping

Harvard Quietly Trained Members of Chinese ‘Paramilitary Organization’—After the US Sanctioned It Over Uyghur Genocide

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‘Training the XPCC risked complicity in Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs and other ethno-religious minorities,’ foreign policy expert says L: Xi Jinping (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images) R: Harvard University (Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Harvard University quietly trained members of a Chinese “paramilitary organization” on two occasions after the U.S. government sanctioned the group for its role

The Pronoun Wars

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It’s always been allowed, and always will be,To introduce new words, fresh from the mint,Just as in forests in the changing yearNew leaves come in and the oldest drop away,And the new ones bloom and prosper in their time. —Horace, “The Art of Poetry” Change, relentless change, is the keynote of language. A young person

Whistling Past the White House: How the Democratic Party’s Lack of ‘Balls’ Caused the Most Predictable Political Crisis in History

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REVIEW: ”Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History’ by Chris Whipple Getty Images The amount of effort that went into helping Joe Biden prepare for the CNN debate on June 27, 2024, is farcical in retrospect. Hell, it was farcical at the time. The campaign built a

And My App! Palantir’s Quest To Give AI a Moral Purpose

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In a hole in the ground there lived some hobbits—not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. Silicon Valley isn’t known for those. But a respectable place in a respectable town—and yet, somehow, these hobbits ended up going out on a great adventure. They may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but they gained…well, you will see whether