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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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opinion
The Inescapable DEI Albatrosses
A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways. First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and cancerous condition of President Joe… -
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DEI Enthusiasts Allowed the Free Palestine Movement to Get This Far
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. Recently, two Israeli diplomatic employees in Washington, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were shot. Apparently, the… -
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Lockheed Martin Phases Out Key DEI Policy After Questions About Anti-Christian Double Standard
Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that it will phase out employee resource groups, which divide workers along racial, LGBTQ, and activism lines, after President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and after shareholders expressed concern about an anti-Christian double standard. “As we shared in January, Lockheed Martin took immediate action to ensure compliance with… -
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Wilder Boycotts Desegregation Commemoration Over Youngkin’s DEI Policies
Until this past weekend, there was only one place you had a chance to see all of Virginia’s living governors come together in the same place, and that was at the inauguration of the next one. But on May 17, in commemoration of the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education… -
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David Hogg’s Sacrifice at the Altar of DEI Shows Why Democrats Are Losing Young Men
The rise and fall of left-wing media darling David Hogg demonstrates exactly what the Left is all about and why the Democratic Party is losing young men. Hogg, a 25-year-old gun control activist turned pillow salesman (that’s probably inaccurate since he never actually sold any pillows) turned party organizer clearly aimed to be a mover and shaker in the… -
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‘ONLY THE BEGINNING’: IBM’s Rejection of DEI Will Spark a ‘Corporate Realignment,’ Shareholder Says
IBM’s latest moves rejecting woke orthodoxy and the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement will spark a “corporate realignment” against DEI, one of its shareholders predicts. The shareholders for International Business Machines Corporation—better known as IBM—will meet Tuesday, one day after the company announced a $150 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing. The Heritage Foundation, one of… -
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Nearly 400 Colleges and Universities Refuse to Close DEI Offices
A recent report from an education watchdog has found that colleges and universities across the nation are still operating diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and programs, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding an end to DEI initiatives among any organizations that receive federal funding. Defending Education, the higher education arm of Parents Defending Education,… -
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DEI DOMINOES COLLAPSE: Yet Another Major Company Drops the Human Rights Campaign’s Index
The company that imports Corona beer into the U.S. rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement Tuesday. Constellation Brands—which owns the rights to sell the Mexican-made beers Corona, Modelo, and Pacifico in the U.S.—told employees that it would cease DEI practices, stop working with the LGBTQ activist group the Human Rights Campaign, stop using the… -
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NASA Nominee Plans to Prioritize America First Agenda in Space, Not DEI
Under the Trump administration, the next mission to the moon will advance the “America First” agenda through space exploration, rather than the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. While the Biden administration infused DEI into NASA’s operations, President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA director, Jared Isaacman, will use his background as an entrepreneur, commercial… -
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Purging DEI From the Smithsonian Is No Easy Task
President Donald Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back cultural ground that the Left has spent decades capturing. This new action should be far-reaching and profound and sweep away such dangerous ideas as the Latino Museum. The executive order the president issued late last week, on… -
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Harvard and DEI: An Expensive Lesson
The U.S. Department of Education is calling on colleges to account for racist and antisemitic incidents on campus—and its move to withhold taxpayer dollars from violators has gotten university officials’ attention. The University of Michigan just disbanded its multiyear, multimillion-dollar boondoggle in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Columbia University agreed to align the school with… -
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DEI Is Dying
President Donald Trump ended federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.” Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering $270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of “Snow White,” joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs…. -
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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… -
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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]… -
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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… -
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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,”… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…