WSJ editorial warns new Trump 'assault' will haunt America: 'Terribly damaging'

President Donald Trump is playing with fire by escalating his war against Harvard, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board warned in an analysis published on Friday evening.

The president has done everything in his power to try to bring Harvard to heel after the prestigious Boston-area Ivy League university refused to kowtow to his demands for eliminating diversity policies and cracking down on student protests, or to turn over confidential records of foreign students. He revoked...