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Students play with toys in a basin of soapy water at a child care center in New Britain, Conn., in March 2025. Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public via Getty Images

March 19, 2026

Trump’s new child care subsidy rules compound an already dire situation for providers and families

Beth Kania-Gosche, Missouri University of Science and Technology

The Trump administration’s new child care subsidy rules are the latest measure to challenge the struggling industry.

While sanctuary policies for immigrants have grown in the U.S. since the 1980s, the Trump administration is the first to challenge them. Marcos Silva/iStock/Getty Images Plus

June 11, 2025

Sanctuary cities can’t protect people from ICE immigration raids − but they don’t actually violate federal law

Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, San Diego State University and Loren Collingwood, University of New Mexico

There’s no one set legal definition for sanctuary cities and other places with these policies. But they often limit local coordination with federal immigration authorities.

Giant panda Xiao Qi Ji walks around his enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in September 2023 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

May 1, 2025

Pandas and politics − from World War II to the Cold War, zoos have always been ideological

John M. Kinder, Oklahoma State University

Zoos aren’t woke, but they aren’t politically neutral, either.

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Trump’s new child care subsidy rules compound an already dire situation for providers and families

Sanctuary cities can’t protect people from ICE immigration raids − but they don’t actually violate federal law

Pandas and politics − from World War II to the Cold War, zoos have always been ideological

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