The Conflict with universities
Top university hires Trump-connected lawyer
The elite American university Harvard has hired a highly regarded lawyer with a conservative background and connections to Donald Trump in the conflict with the president. Bloomberg reports.
After Trump on Tuesday froze 2.2 billion in funding for the top university, it is now clear that lawyer William Burck will help acting president Alan Garber. Burck represented several allies of Trump during the so-called Russia investigation, including strategist Steve Bannon.
The election sends different messages to different target groups, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
- To the faculty they say "we're tough, we stand up to the government." But to the government they say: "we're hiring your guy."
Trump's threat: Harvard could lose its tax exemption
Donald Trump is escalating the conflict with Harvard University and suggesting that it could lose its tax-exempt status. In a post on Truth Social, the president writes that the private university may need to be taxed as a political organization.
He claims that Harvard pursues "political, ideological and terrorist-inspired" agendas, without specifying.
"Remember, tax exemption is contingent on acting in the public interest!"
The US government has frozen $2.2 billion in funding for the university after it rejected new demands for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions processes. According to the White House, these include measures to curb anti-Semitism.
Tariff crisis Voices about tariffs
IMF economist: The end of the tariff war will be that the small ones suffer
Whether it is a country like China or a company like Apple, Donald Trump will back down when the other side shows that it has enough political or economic power to oppose it. This is what the IMF's former chief economist Olivier Blanchard writes in a speculation about how the tariff war might end.
If the other side lacks power, he will not back down. Therefore, it will be the small ones, such as Vietnam and smaller American companies, who will suffer, Blanchard predicts on X.
He writes that the end result of the US's new tariff policy will be a "patchwork of ill-conceived, ineffective and repressive tariffs."
Top university hires Trump-connected lawyer
The elite American university Harvard has hired a highly regarded lawyer with a conservative background and connections to Donald Trump in the conflict with the president. Bloomberg reports.
After Trump on Tuesday froze 2.2 billion in funding for the top university, it is now clear that lawyer William Burck will help acting president Alan Garber. Burck represented several allies of Trump during the so-called Russia investigation, including strategist Steve Bannon.
The election sends different messages to different target groups, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
- To the faculty they say "we're tough, we stand up to the government." But to the government they say: "we're hiring your guy."
Trump's threat: Harvard could lose its tax exemption
Donald Trump is escalating the conflict with Harvard University and suggesting that it could lose its tax-exempt status. In a post on Truth Social, the president writes that the private university may need to be taxed as a political organization.
He claims that Harvard pursues "political, ideological and terrorist-inspired" agendas, without specifying.
"Remember, tax exemption is contingent on acting in the public interest!"
The US government has frozen $2.2 billion in funding for the university after it rejected new demands for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions processes. According to the White House, these include measures to curb anti-Semitism.
Tariff crisis Voices about tariffs
IMF economist: The end of the tariff war will be that the small ones suffer
Whether it is a country like China or a company like Apple, Donald Trump will back down when the other side shows that it has enough political or economic power to oppose it. This is what the IMF's former chief economist Olivier Blanchard writes in a speculation about how the tariff war might end.
If the other side lacks power, he will not back down. Therefore, it will be the small ones, such as Vietnam and smaller American companies, who will suffer, Blanchard predicts on X.
He writes that the end result of the US's new tariff policy will be a "patchwork of ill-conceived, ineffective and repressive tariffs."
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