Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research New York Times | November 2, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/02/viewpoint-america-last-from-the-pentagon-to-universities-trumps-corruption-of-science-could-inflict-lasting-irreversible-damage-on-u-s-research/ Washington is still spending about $200 billion a year on research, roughly what past administrations spent. But beneath that headline number, the federally funded science system that helped make the United States a superpower is buckling under Trump administration policies, as The New York Times’ Christopher Flavelle and colleagues report in the first installment of a series on how the administration has upended American science.