The administration is investing in American science while rewriting the immigration arrangements on which universities built their research and graduate programs. The consequences land in offices that may not be fluent in...
The administration is narrowing disparate impact doctrine while building a far greater capacity to detect disparate outcomes. The machinery may prove more durable than the policy that built it. In June, the Justice...
Weaving the Threads: Someone Else’s Answer to the Sixth Question (and Maybe the First and Second Too)
August 14, 2026
Two House committees have now written a research-security program for one leading American research university. Every other institution has until year-end to write its own. The House Select Committee on the Strategic...
Recent moves at NIH and the Department of War confirm it: research-security policy has evolved from compliance to judgment. Universities’ governance hasn’t caught up. Last month, the National Institutes of Health...