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Bruce Robbins, Columbia University professor, and Bret Stephens, New York Times columnist, speak to Fareed about the boundaries of free speech on college campuses — and whether Columbia University should have called in the police to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters.

Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U. S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become something else: a threat.

University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw said the U. S. Supreme Court appears poised to create a presidential immunity doctrine just to protect former President Donald Trump. Shaw spoke out on ABC's This Week on Sunday following arguments before the high court in Trump's election interference case. ABC host George Stephanopoulos observed that the court "is ready to carve out some immunity for presidents." "So I'm a constitutional law professor," Shaw explained.

Fox's Laura Ingraham is very angry that CNN's John Berman dared to point out that none of Trump's family members have chosen to attend his trial in Manhattan while discussing Trump's whiny birthday message to Melania. Hey Laura, if Trump knew how to keep his you-know-what in his pants, maybe he wouldn't be missing his wife's birthday while he sits in court. Here's more from Mother Jones on the message: The former president, who is on trial for falsifying business records related to an alleged affair, complained that he couldn’t be with his wife.

He is also pushing back against the fact that, through administrative actions and executive orders, Biden has made himself one of the most powerful presidents ever.

A study of who went 'Nazi' the worst in pre-World War II Germany turned up an interesting correlation.