Columbia should have said, ‘see you in court,’ not ‘yes, Mr President.’ | Margaret Sullivan

Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again

Since early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

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