Wholl end Christian slaughter, grad schools will survive loan caps and other commentary

Foreign desk: Who’ll End Christian Slaughter?“On Friday June 13, over 500 Christians” were murdered by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria, reports The Free Press’ Madeleine Kearns.“The jihadists broke into homes and shelters, murdering people with machetes,” then “doused their victims’ bodies and homes in petrol and set them ablaze.” And, “though exceptional in scale and barbarity,” it’s just “part of a pattern of persecution that Christians in Nigeria have come to expect.” Consider: “Since 2009, Islamists” across Nigeria “have destroyed over 18,000 churches,” “murdered over 50,000 Christians” and displaced “a further 5 million Christians.” Yet Western governments and media “have turned away from the issue.” Will anyone move to stop the carnage?Libertarian: Grad Schools Will Survive Loan CapsA provision in the Republican Big Beautiful Bill “may make considerable inroads to correcting a decades-long student loan policy that has driven expensive programs and large debt burdens for students,” cheers Reason’s Emma Camp.

The House bill “eliminates the Graduate PLUS loan program, which allows graduate students to borrow an unlimited sum of money from the government,” instead capping grad-student borrowing at $100,000, “with a $150,000 limit for professional programs, and a lifetime cap of $200,000 for all students.” These caps could “force colleges to lower their prices once their students no longer have access to an infinite pile of government money.” Indeed, If we want more affordable medical schools, “the first step should involve actually incentivizing medical schools to stop overcharging students.”Conservative: Dems’ NYC-led Coastal Elitism“One interesting aspect of the rise of” socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani “is what it says about New York City’s dominance of national Democratic politics at this moment,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.“The New York con...