But the mandates also help colleges shovel heaps of bureaucratic muck—validating data for accreditation, carrying out enrollment, flagging troubled students, aggregating metrics of all kinds.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Still, Colbert didn’t shy from validating those who tied the cancellation to political pressure.
Critics from across the political spectrum, including prominent Jewish leaders, condemned the discussion as legitimizing antisemitic and racist rhetoric.
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Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Gods have been especially helpful in this task of corralling the manual labor of the people and legitimizing it symbolically.
The United States signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996 during President Bill Clinton's first term, but the Senate voted against ratifying the treaty.
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Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Delegates of Workers United and the company resumed bargaining in April 2024 with the goal of ratifying a new contract by the end of the year, but that never came to pass as negotiations stalled with both sides blaming the other for not coming to the table.
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