President Donald Trump has escalated his fight with America's premiere university by freezing billions in federal grants and threatening to revoke Harvard's nonprofit tax status. The Trump administration has even threatened to block the university's ability to enroll foreign students, who are a lucrative source of revenue for colleges across the United States.

Trump's fight with Harvard escalated after the university rejected the administration's demands that it change hiring and enrollment policies to elevate merit-based admissions and employment over efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

It's ironic that a university

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