Yes, but. The “but” is that plagiarism allegations are easy to verify independently, mooting whatever malign motive lies behind them. The December 11 complaint was troubling, but it concerned Gay’s ...

Harvard President Claudine Gay is facing six new plagiarism charges in another development of an unfolding academic scandal that has rocked one of America's most prestigious universities. The new ...

Claudine Gay is the president of Harvard University. In recent weeks, she has come under fire for plagiarizing portions of her 1997 doctoral dissertation, as well as published articles she had ...

In 2009, Kamala Harris co-authored a book called Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer. Its purpose was to outline her criminal justice policies in advance of her campaign for ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been accused of plagiarism by the student paper at Princeton University — his alma mater. The Daily Princetonian alleges that Hegseth's 2003 senior thesis ...

Harvard‘s Chief Diversity Officer Sherri Ann Charleston has been accused of plagiarism in her dissertation less than a month after former university President Claudine Gay resigned amid backlash over ...

New York Times’ plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey released his "full analysis" of the allegations against Vice President Kamala Harris and found them "more serious" than he initially believed. "At ...

Claudine Gay has faced growing criticism of not only her response to antisemitism on campus but also her scholarship. By Jennifer Schuessler Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over ...

Simply put, plagiarism is the act of taking someone else's words or ideas and presenting them as your own. A writer plagiarizes when he or she turns in a paper that contains passages or important ...