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If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson. It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine.

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection.

The world economy is going through some stuff

Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further," said the leader of one government watchdog group.

The press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.

Israeli PM warns of seizure of territories and ‘other measures’ if Hamas refuses to release remaining hostages