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The Daily Signal covers Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) news with reporting, analysis, and commentary on its impact on schools, corporations, and culture.
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The DEI Higher Ed Machine Is Crumbling
The Trump administration is routing DEI regimes on college campuses. The University of California announced Wednesday that it would drop diversity statement requirements when hiring new faculty. The university’s provost, Katherine S. Newman, announced the move. “The requirement to submit a diversity statement may lead applicants to focus on an aspect of their candidacy that…Jarrett Stepman -
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Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Defense’s school system touted the video game Minecraft as a tool for teaching social-emotional learning, a Trojan horse for diversity, equity, and inclusion. A Department of Defense Education Activity middle-school teacher sent an email to staff encouraging them to use Minecraft to teach kids to “develop important [social-emotional learning]…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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What Does DEI Have to Do With Preserving American Battlefield Memorials?
On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he ordered all federal agencies to terminate all of their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and all DEI offices and positions, including “chief diversity officer” positions. One federal agency, the American Battle Monuments Commission, appeared to disobey that order until it came under scrutiny. Although Trump issued…GianCarlo Canaparo -
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Education Department Launches ‘End DEI’ Portal for K-12 Discrimination Reporting
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Education has launched the “End DEI” portal for parents to report instances of race or sex-based discrimination in K-12 schools. End DEI is “a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly funded K-12 schools,”…Tate Miller -
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Higher Ed Needs to Show Its Work on Ending DEI
Students are not the only ones who have homework due this semester. Teachers, college professors, and school administrators have a civil rights assignment to turn in this Friday—a project that’s long overdue. The responses will offer a glimpse at how serious educators are at protecting equality under the law and uncover the interest groups who…Jonathan Butcher -
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Libs, Leave Greg Abbott Alone. Disability Is Not DEI.
Leftists are attacking President Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and other conservatives for dismantling “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs, unfairly lumping together people with disabilities with people who exploit DEI for unfair gain. Yet forcibly requiring an agency or organization to hire someone—the DEI approach—versus not allowing them to be discriminated against (e.g., through…Carrie Sheffield -
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‘DEI Isn’t for Us’: Some Black-Owned Businesses Say Diversity Policies Don’t Work
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Some black-owned businesses are blowing the whistle on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, telling Reuters that the initiatives have not been effective in helping out black people and other minority business owners. Black business owners are now saying that they have not benefited much from diversity efforts intended to help them, and…Ireland Owens -
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After DEI, What’s Next?
Ding dong, DEI is dead! But what will replace it? Democrats will try to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to diversity, equity, and inclusion. But the Left cannot reverse the fatal wounds that President Donald Trump dealt this system of state-sponsored racism, as Fox News anchor Will Cain correctly describes it. Fetishistic, twisted, and cruel programs such as…Deroy Murdock -
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Millions for DEI and Climate: Here’s Where DOGE Found Waste and Abuse in Federal Grants
White House documents obtained The Daily Signal back up the Trump administration’s previous claims that the Department of Government Efficiency had unearthed large amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse. The documents reveal that the Department of Defense paid $2.3 million “to support its virtual reality training course featuring a DEI avatar” at Air University at…Tyler O’Neil -
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‘No Exceptions’: Pentagon Schools Defy Hegseth by Renaming DEI Efforts
In preparation for Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Pentagon’s school system attempted to conceal its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts under a different name. The Department of Defense Education Activity agency renamed social-emotional learning as “resilience,” according to a Jan. 6 meeting recording obtained by The Daily Signal. During his first two weeks in office,…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix
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. I’d like to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. [President] Donald Trump caused a firestorm in the aftermath of this horrific and tragic crash at…Victor Davis Hanson -
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If You Wanted Proof DEI Is a Cudgel to Silence Opponents, Look No Further
If the legacy media wanted to prove that the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion is a smokescreen for the Left’s woke priorities, it couldn’t do much better than USA Today’s response to President Donald Trump’s statement about Wednesday night’s horrific aircraft collision over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Trump blamed DEI for the crash,…Tyler O’Neil -
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‘There Were 503 Lapses’: Kris Kobach Breaks Down Consequences of Hiring DEI in Aviation
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach appeared Thursday on Fox Business to discuss concerns regarding the diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices in the aviation industry. An American Airlines passenger plane collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, resulting in fatalities for everyone involved. During…Mariane Angela -
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Costco’s Wholesale Refusal to Cut DEI Draws Warning From 19 States
It’s a shrinking club, but there are still headstrong CEOs who refuse to bend to the anti-woke winds. None have grabbed more headlines than Costco, the big box holdout who’s clinging to diversity, equity, and inclusion while a stampede of businesses run the other way. After voting down a shareholder resolution last Thursday to return…Suzanne Bowdey -
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Why Do Red State Policymakers Fund DEI Required Course in Public Universities?
No one is surprised that the cows in the Chik-fil-A ads advocate for eating more chicken. It would be shockingly irrational, however, if the chickens joined the campaign by paying the cows to carry their “Eat Mor Chikin” signs. Yet, this is exactly what Republican state legislators in 10 conservative states are doing when they…Jay Greene -
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Hegseth’s Right, Dems Are Wrong. DEI Didn’t Make Military More ‘Lethal,’ It Fueled Historic Recruiting Crisis.
A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion has damaged the effectiveness of the U.S. military and hurt recruitment numbers. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday. One exchange in particular highlighted the wrongheaded thinking that infects some in the current U.S. leadership…Jarrett Stepman -
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LA’s Disastrous Response to Wildfires Is Latest Consequence of California’s Obsession With DEI
California prioritizes fighting “toxic masculinity” and promoting DEI instead of fighting wildfires. I hate to appear flippant at a time when Los Angeles is going through an apocalyptic natural disaster, but the people of California should be outraged at state leaders. It is the California Democratic political machine—not “climate change”—that has ensured the Golden State…Jarrett Stepman -
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Is DEI Worth Saving?
Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No. As the summer 2020 high water mark of woke recedes, some U.S. institutions, from big companies to colleges, are gently backing off DEI, at least by name. But not the State Department. On his first…Simon Hankinson -
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More Corporations Following Walmart’s ‘Rollback’ of DEI Policies
Walmart executives scuttled the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion programs recently, becoming the latest corporate giant to drop extreme politics after public outcry. Others on the Fortune 500 list, such as Coors and Boeing, have also rescinded DEI operations in recent months after criticism from activists such as conservative documentarian Robby Starbuck. Employees and customers…Jonathan Butcher -
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Major Textbook Publisher Caught Spreading LGBTQ and DEI Ideology in Schools
“Pretty disgusting” and “grotesque.” That’s how a Florida parent described an online session for students on “gender” provided by two K-12 virtual public schools in November—a session that virtual school officials held without first informing parents. These schools’ attempt to sidestep families is just the latest in a long list of examples demonstrating that some…Jonathan Butcher