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L. Rafael Reif

L. Rafael Reif

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America Is Losing the Innovation Race

China has long been dismissed as the world’s factory floor—a country that excels at manufacturing technologies invented elsewhere yet is unable to...

31.03.2026 20

Foreign Affairs

L. Rafael Reif

An impossible choice: How Trump’s ‘compact’ threatens our universities

Former MIT president: This isn’t a compact. It’s an ultimatum.

07.10.2025 10

Boston Globe

L. Rafael Reif

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will raise the cost of college

The cost of increasing the tax rate on endowment income will be borne by students from lower- and middle-income families who need financial aid.

27.06.2025 10

Boston Globe

L. Rafael Reif

America’s Coming Brain Drain

Trump’s War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation

07.05.2025 20

Foreign Affairs

L. Rafael Reif

America’s Coming Brain Drain

Trump’s War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation

06.05.2025 10

Foreign Affairs

L. Rafael Reif

Trump’s cuts threaten US lead in science and technology

Trump has said that the United States has the greatest scientists in the world. The government should take care not to drive them out.

17.02.2025 20

Boston Globe

L. Rafael Reif