Thou doth protest too much … so leave?

Last week, federal ICE officers detained a Columbia University
student over last year’s Israel-Palestine campus protests. The
Trump administration revoked grad student Mahmoud Khalil’s green
card, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing
Khalil of “siding with terrorists.” Is the administration
infringing on First Amendment rights? 


Federal attention on Columbia University extended beyond the
arrest of Khalil. The White House also announced a plan to cancel
over $400 million in federal funding for the university over
insufficient protections for Jewish students on campus. Education
Secretary Linda McMahon claimed that Columbia had abandoned its
anti-discriminatory obligation to protect Jewish students on
campus. Is the federal government overdoing its oversight on
college campuses? 


Both Democrats and Republicans have supported expanding the child
tax credit, but you’d never know from how they talk about it. Do
politicians still value compromise? Or is it all about the glory?