<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Independence Day (Postponed)
The EU grants a Brexit delay. Plus: Trump’s executive order on campus free speech, the endlessly on-its-way Mueller report, outrunning streetcars, and more
by Saahil Desai
Mar 21, 2019
3 minutes
What We’re Following
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing colleges to promote free speech on campus. The administration has, for years, sought to take action on campus speech, motivated by the guise that right-wing voices are being stifled on college campuses. But the executive order essentially restates what institutions of higher education are already required to do: More than anything, it’s red meat for Trump’s MAGA base.
—if Parliament votes through the withdrawal deal next
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