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October 3, 2023

Just Can't Debt Enough

Kali Jerrard

This month, student loan repayments restarted. But who actually has to pay?

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August 22, 2023

CounterCurrent: The Myth of State Disinvestment

Chance Layton

Overspending and financial mismanagement, not state disinvestment, has caused college tuition increases.

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July 6, 2023

No Student Debt Forgiveness Without Reform

National Association of Scholars

NAS celebrates the Supreme Court's decision to block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program.

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April 7, 2023

Congress Asks Dept of Education to Enforce Foreign Gift Disclosure Laws

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars strongly endorses the Representatives' work to open the books on higher education's concealed dealings with the foreign despots who seek to subor......

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November 8, 2022

U.S. Gives $2.9M to Universities That Promote Anti-West Ideologies

Adam Andrzejewski

NAS's report reveals that eleven Middle East Studies Centers at American universities funded by the U.S. government are pushing overtly anti-West ideologies.

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October 11, 2022

A Gulf in Our Middle East Studies

Marina Ziemnick

As long as America’s Middle East Studies Centers are more interested in advancing their ideological agenda than promoting meaningful scholarship, they are not deserving of our taxpayer dollars.

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October 5, 2022

0% Interest on Student Loans Is the Next Debt Forgiveness

Neetu Arnold

Interest-free student loans benefit the higher education system and the wealthy. But they are not in the interest of most Americans.

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September 23, 2022

NAS Comments on Senator Tom Cotton's "Student Loan Reform Act"

National Association of Scholars

The Student Loan Reform Act of 2022 would greatly improve higher education, but more far-reaching reform is needed to address the structural problems afflicting American universities.

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August 30, 2022

Passing the Check on Student Loans

Marina Ziemnick

Debt forgiveness only makes financial sense as part of a broader restructuring of higher education financing—a truly one-time deal, designed to wipe the slate clean and reboot the system.

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