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Steve Inskeep Dec 18, 2022

Some colleges are dropping their prices nearer what most parents pay—cutting back on the baffling game of high sticker prices followed by grants and aid. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/us/harvard-president-claudine-gay.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Harvard Names Claudine Gay as New President, First Black Leader

Claudine Gay, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will be the university’s first Black leader, and the second woman. She will take office just as the university faces a Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

Steve Inskeep Dec 17, 2022

Insight from my colleague Claudia Grisales on just which criminal charges the 1/6 committee will vote on referring to the Justice Department.

Steve Inskeep Dec 17, 2022

It’s the day for decorating graves in national cemeteries. I wrote about the experience here: https://post.news/article/2J3PMgvjnGkv8JfCkGwqEJ3efpr

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Steve Inskeep Dec 17, 2022

The stories from Leila Fadel in Tunisia’s fading democracy have been powerful all week long. A democratically elected leader has taken to tearing democracy, first suspending and then dissolving the parliament.
- https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142517505/tunisians-are-voting-in-an-election-critics-say-could-cement-a-return-to-autocra

Tunisians are voting in an election critics say could cement a return to autocracy

In Tunisia, 12 years after the revolution, citizens are still asking, "How do you expect me to make a living?"

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