Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons
- Written by Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
A pedestrian walks past the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images “And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education.”
President Donald Trump made this promise in a Sept....