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opinion
Trump Administration Turns Up Pressure on DEI Admissions at UCLA Law
This is the way to defeat systemic DEI racism. Don’t let up, don’t back down, keep up the pressure. The Trump administration has released another major finding exposing racial discrimination against white and Asian applicants at a top law school. This time, the Department of Justice is taking aim at the University of California, Los… -
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Seattle DEI Case Signals a Major Victory in the Fight Over Workplace Diversity Programs
Another big step was taken to eliminate workplace DEI, and it came via a notoriously left-wing appeals court. On Monday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of a white former City of Seattle employee, Joshua Diemert, who said he had been the victim of racial… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Inclusive’ Stanford University Caught Red-Handed Using AI to Race Swap Student
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, let’s talk about—you ever heard of Stanford University, Victor? Victor Davis Hanson: I have some recollection of it. … -
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New York’s Experiment in Governing by Racial Outcomes
America is about to find out what happens when a municipal government stops merely measuring racial disparities and instead begins organizing its decisions around them. New York City’s Racial Equity Plan, released Sept. 1 by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, is the first citywide racial-equity framework in the Big Apple’s history. It implements a 2022 voter-approved… -
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Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education
Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue. That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Tribalism Is Tearing America Apart
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. I think we should entitle our short video today “Tribalism: Tribalism Doesn’t Work.” And what do I… -
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Democrats Boycott Protecting Women’s Sports—Again
Not a single Democrat actively participated in Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women’s sports. Democrats did not show up, did not fill their two witness seats, or question the witnesses who were impacted by males competing in women’s sports. Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the committee, claimed that America does… -
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Georgia Tech Gets 3rd Place for Free Speech
Georgia Tech’s main campus placed third for free speech in a recent ranking released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Out of the 261 schools surveyed, Georgia Tech’s main campus placed only behind the University of Chicago, which ranked first, and Claremont McKenna College, which ranked second. The report comes one year after… -
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Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers
Who is teaching the teachers? Critical theorists, DEI peddlers, and all manner of indoctrinators who have weaponized the American education system to further their ideological and cultural goals. That’s my conclusion after reading a study released Wednesday by the American Enterprise Institute’s Daniel Buck. Buck reviewed the syllabi of many of America’s top graduate schools… -
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Trump Administration Targets Race-Based Discrimination With New IRS Crackdown on Private Schools
The Trump administration plans to end tax-exempt status for private schools that engage in any type of race-based discrimination or race-based admissions. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service will issue the proposed regulation Thursday to restore merit. “Under President Trump, this Administration is standing up for America’s students by ensuring racial discrimination has… -
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Even After Affirmative Action’s Fall, DEI Thrives at Elite Law Schools
DEI may be crumbling in the federal government and waning in the public esteem, but it is still going strong in elite educational institutions despite popular and legal headwinds against it. Aaron Sibarium at The Washington Free Beacon dropped a report on Monday about how one prestigious law school journal often made race a deciding… -
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WOKE ALERT: Major Companies Are Rebranding DEI or Sticking With It
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—While corporate America has dialed back the woke messaging in recent years, as the second administration of President Donald Trump cracks down on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts, some companies are still pushing DEI, climate, and LGBTQ+ initiatives, while some have rebranded the programs under new names. “Woke companies want you… -
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Are Colleges Finally Admitting Standardized Tests Aren’t Racist?
Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores. Even if the test isn’t racist today, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to… -
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Department of Education Moves to Strip ABA’s Law School Accreditation Amid DEI Criticism
The Department of Education has begun the process of removing the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit law schools, though the ABA Accreditation Council emphasizes the move represents only one step in the process. “After reviewing the ABA’s accreditation standards, department staff found the accreditor out of compliance with the agency’s accreditation regulations and recognition… -
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In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Attack Free Speech
The Western value of free speech appears to be hitting a terminal phase outside the United States, especially in the Anglosphere where censorship in the name of political correctness now runs rampant. That’s my takeaway from the ongoing “Arday affair” which, if anything, solidifies just how pathological and ultimately tyrannical the DEI obsession has become… -
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The Federal Bureaucracy Helped Build DEI’s Infrastructure. A New Rule Seeks to Change That.
A federal regulation intended to combat workplace racial discrimination has become a weapon for the race-obsessed diversity, equity, and inclusion movement—but President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to get rid of it. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, has required specific employers to file an annual report summarizing data on their employees’ race… -
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The DEI Admissions Scam Is Catching Up With Elite Universities
The higher education racket is being exposed in America as diminishing standards, collapsing public trust, and a cult-like, often unlawful devotion to DEI ideology pushes its mid-20th century model past the point of breaking. For several generations, going to a premier public or private university provided a smooth path to success for most Americans. Sure,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Jason Arday’s Death
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. What or who killed Jason Arday? That’s the question that’s being asked in the English-speaking intellectual,… -
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Duke Law Case Shows Why the Fight Against DEI in Higher Education Isn’t Over
The battle to end DEI in higher education is one that can only be won through attrition against a stubborn enemy that won’t back away from the ideology that created it. One might think that the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Supreme Court decision that prohibited racial discrimination in college admissions would have put… -
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The State Department’s DEI Reckoning Exposes the Global Reach of Wokeness
The menace of the “woke era,” which I’d argue we are still suffering through despite the current counterrevolution, was about far more than just cultural vibes and overheated rhetoric. It was about creating a larger, global cultural revolution and ensuring that every institution from the most elite on down enforced its evolving ideology and mandates,…