For over the past hundred years the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has provided the intellectual framework and oversight mechanisms that define academic freedom in the United States. Its combination of policy leadership, investigative rigor, and moral authority makes it a foundational institution in American higher education. As pressures on universities continue to mount, the committee’s work remains vital to upholding the principles on which academic life depends.

The “breakdown of trust” we witnessed this year was not a failure of enforcement.
It was a failure of design.
For decades we treated labels, stamps, and certificates as if they were reality itself.
In 2025, the world discovered the cost of that illusion.
But it also discovered the path forward:
Trust rooted not in symbols, but in the unforgeable details of the physical world.
The next era of global commerce won’t be built on proxies.
It will be built on truth embedded directly into the objects we depend on.

And a state of mental uneasiness and uncertainty: POTUS DOUBTS SCOTUS?

Was the desecration of the Oval Office decorated with the gaudy, tasteless decor that inhabits a real estate mind of Donald Trump the scene of a strange meeting between the mayor-elect of New York City and President Trump’s “be nice” to a spirit that looks exactly like a living person, or someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related?

The U.S. job market has shifted dramatically in 2025.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
—Cicero
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been quietly disbanded with eight months left in its charter, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director.