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New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard’s gates.

Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.

Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group.

“CoachGPT.” A college “cookie house.” And the latest from Iran.

An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.

A Yale report offers some honest self-reflection on where the university went wrong.

The university released a report that said the president, Walter Carter Jr., took trips with a podcaster and suggested that the university hire her.

At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.

The $7 million KidSTREAM museum was the brainchild of a former teacher looking for a place to entertain her young daughters.

Dobrina Ustun ✓ Attorney · 4 days ago

For years, if you got laid off on an H-1B, the standard move was straightforward — file Form I-539 to change to B-2 visitor status within your 60-day grace period, job hunt, interview, then transfer back to H-1B without ever leaving the U.S. USCIS even had a page explicitly saying job searching and interviewing were permissible B-2 activities. That page was quietly archived on March 31, 2026. Now adjudicators are using that archival to issue RFEs, Notices of Intent to Deny, and outright denials — arguing that job searching was never a valid B-2 purpose, and that filing a subsequent H-1B petition proves you never had proper B-2 intent to begin with. No formal policy announcement. No rulemaking. Just a pattern of denials. The stakes are high. A denied B-2 could force consular processing abroad — where some new H-1B petitions now carry a $100,000 fee under the September 2025 Presidential Proclamation. If you're an H-1B worker, an HR/immigration contact at a tech company, or an employment attorney — this is something you need to know about now, not after a layoff happens. Talk to an immigration attorney before assuming the old playbook still works. It may not.

Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.

Readers respond to an Opinion essay by Frank Bruni. Also: An arch near Arlington; cuts in mental health care; transformation in prison.