The Trump administration’s flagrant attacks on press freedoms show no signs of stopping. It’s easy to brush off individual incidents: One more threatening social media post, one more lawsuit, they all start to feel like drops in the bucket. But President Trump‘s vilification of the press should be seen in the context of his larger agenda to discredit any arbiter of fact and fiction that has not kissed the ring.

The goal is to make Trump’s “alternative facts” the only facts. That’s why the administration is going after not only journalists but everyone from prestigious universities in Cambridge, Massachusetts to small medical journals in Glenview, Illinois.

Trump is also targeting institutions that lend prestige to noteworthy truthtellers, from the Smithsonian (and even the Holocaust Museum) to the Pulitzer Prize Board, which announced its

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