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A judge ruled last week that the NIH unlawfully terminated hundreds of research grants and ordered the agency to restore them. Internal rumblings suggest the NIH will comply, but researchers have yet to get their money.

The decision shocked some higher ed lobbyists but is a win for critics of the plan.

Nearly 84 percent of the first-year students who enrolled in fall 2023 persisted at their institution to the spring term, though 14 percent left higher education entirely.

Congress wants to significantly cut back on federal loans for grad students. That could decimate the highly profitable graduate degree market—and limit who has access to it.

This year’s Heterodox Academy conference—the first since Republicans retook the White House—featured similar complaints about academe as in years past. But the federal government’s sweeping interventions raised questions about what’s really warranted.