Broken Press

668 examples of press incompetence

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It is neither "deal-making" nor "negotiation." It is authoritarian blackmail and bribery.

Harvard officials have been sensitive to the possibility that a deal with the government would be seen as surrendering to the president and offering him a political gift.

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.

The New York Times • Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender