by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Nov 3, 2026 | Boston, Cambridge, Graduate Student Unions, Harvard, News, Strikes, student organizing, Trump Administration
Harvard graduate student workers walked off the job on Tuesday in their second strike of 2026 — and other Harvard workers are set to follow with additional strikes in the coming weeks, as union activity heats up on campuses in the Boston area. The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers Local 5118 (HGSU), which represents over 4,000 student workers, began their strike at midnight…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Sep 24, 2026 | censorship, DEI, Discrimination, DOGE, Donald Trump, grants, Harvard, National Institutes of Health, NIH, OMB, Op-Ed, Russell Vought, Science, Trump Administration
Over the last two years, in an effort to stamp its ideology on the country’s premier academic and scientific institutions, the Trump administration has repeatedly moved to exert control over how grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are distributed. According to reporting by The New York Times and other outlets, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Russell Vought…
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