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Washington Post
13 hours ago
- Business
- Washington Post
What is next for American universities?
In his May 30 Friday Opinion column, 'Republicans want to tax the Ivy League into submission,' Perry Bacon Jr. fretted that increasing the current 1.4 percent tax on the net investment income of the largest private endowments in the nation would somehow 'hurt not only students and faculty at those schools but the country overall.' This is like worrying that closing the carried interest loophole would mean the end of Wall Street.
Washington Post
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
So you think you should be a chicken farmer?
You're reading the Today's Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today's edition: America's dissatisfied left is looking for the anti-Trump resistance in the wrong places, writes Perry Bacon. Democratic members of Congress, try (or idle) as they might, can't do much with their minority standing. But you know who can?
