Democracy Dies in Darkness
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First pasta, now this? University side hustles are galling.

Congress should close loopholes that universities exploit to run billion-dollar enterprises tax-free.

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Scott Hodge is a tax and fiscal policy fellow at Arnold Ventures and president emeritus of the Tax Foundation.

Harvard University recently won the first round of its cage match with the White House over federal funding. A judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the university’s constitutional rights by unilaterally cutting off grants for projects ranging from cancer research to quantum computing.

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