Recent polls show Americans increasingly distrust science and organized religion, government and the media, public education and law enforcement creating what sounds like the background of a dystopian novel.
Public and private universities from across the country are racing to open satellite campuses around the White House and the U.S. Capitol, transforming empty office space in the nation's capital into a public policy mega-campus.
Conservative speakers, already a rarity on college campuses in recent years, may be even more of an anomaly this spring as the nation's universities hold commencement ceremonies featuring an array of educators, entertainers and politicians drawn from the left and essentially devoid of anyone from the right.
The University of Texas at Austin has implemented diversity, equity and inclusion policies that "espouse a clear ideological agenda" at every level of academic life, a recent report finds.
West Virginia University professors would be graded on their diversity and social justice efforts under a proposal that would let administrators fire educators, including those with tenure, who come up short.