Trump’s funding crackdown hits top US universities as DEI, protests draw fire Universities on the line: Who’s losing what and why Universities priced into silence In a nation where universities have long stood as both engines of innovation and arenas of ideological contestation, American higher education now finds itself at the centre of a calculated political offensive. President Donald Trump—now in his second term—has launched an aggressive campaign to defund, discipline, and decisively reshape academia. His latest salvo against American higher education amounts to more than ideology; it is a strategic demonstration of power. Under the banner of rooting out...