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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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Pentagon Withholding Docs on Whether DEI Hiring Improves National Security, Veteran Says
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Defense is under scrutiny for refusing to release records about exactly how spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion helps with national security. The Center to Advance Security in America in May filed with the Defense Department a Freedom of Information Act Request, the legal pathway to obtain government documents….Casey Harper -
This Report Exposes Influential DEI Author as a Plagiarist and a Fraud
Robin DiAngelo, the pro-DEI author of the bestselling book “White Fragility,” is a fraud. She’s also been accused of rampantly plagiarizing minority scholars in a scathing new report by The Washington Free Beacon. “According to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she plagiarized…Jarrett Stepman -
EXCLUSIVE: Gaetz and Crane Demand Answers From Coast Guard About DEI Trainings
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Has the Biden-Harris administration’s focus on so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion undermined the U.S. Coast Guard’s readiness? Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Eli Crane, R-Ariz., believe it may have and are demanding answers from top Biden-Harris administration officials. In a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and…Bradley Devlin -
DEI Policies ‘Offensive’ to Military Members Who Just Want to Be Trained as Leaders, Expert Says
Diversity, equity, and inclusion measures have created their fair share of controversy. While some claim that DEI is “designed to make people of various backgrounds feel welcome” in the workplace, there have been numerous instances in which the opposite seems to be the case. In fact, countless experts have exposed DEI as none other than a “well-funded Marxist movement.”…Sarah Holliday -
Defense Department Schools’ DEI Agenda Underscores Need for Education Freedom for Military Families
Military families shouldn’t have to worry that their kids are being indoctrinated while they defend our country. However, for families sending their children to schools funded by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which operates domestic and overseas schools for military children, the consequences of a neo-Marxist education are now a troubling reality. In…Jaden Stewart -
DEI Is Wreaking Havoc on America, But Here Are Some Signs for Hope
As someone who fought to ensure equal rights for all Americans beginning in the 1960s and ’70s, I’ve been distressed by the overwhelming cultural revolution brought about by the progressive Left and its desire to enforce an ideology of wokeism with its race-based “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mandates. The efforts of my generation during the…Arthur Goldberg -
Report Shows Pentagon Funding DEI Content in Classrooms
THE WASHINGTON STAND—According to a new report, Pentagon schools pushed DEI propaganda on the children of armed service members stationed abroad. The nonprofit government transparency watchdog Open the Books published a report this month titled “Schools for Radicals: The Secret Push to Institute Radical DEI Curriculums within the Pentagon’s K-12 Public Schools,” detailing the efforts of the…S.A. McCarthy -
University Study: ‘Vast DEI Bureaucracy’ Negatively Impacting US Armed Forces
THE CENTER SQUARE—Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the U.S. military are ineffective, a new Arizona State University study suggests. The study done by the university’s Center for American Institutions argued that there is an emphasis on training new soldiers about social issues like “unconscious bias” and “intersectionality” in a way the center says runs contrary…Cameron Arcand -
McKinsey Study That Spawned Corporate DEI Programs Unravels
As the wind slowly goes out of the sails of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, it’s worth noting just how much purveyors of this nonsense have peddled their ideology under the false premise of data, science, and research. The Wall Street Journal published an article Friday about how the consulting firm McKinsey announced in…Jarrett Stepman -
GOP Lawmakers Aim to Strip Government of All DEI Programs
A group of Republican lawmakers is working to strip all DEI programs out of the government through legislation they call the Dismantle DEI Act. “This bill goes through the federal government and works to remove the officers, the programs” centered on DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, says. Cloud and Sen….Virginia Allen -
Emergency Exposes Folly of DEI in Medicine
If you want to know why prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical schools is a bad idea, consider your priorities in a medical emergency. Early this month, my youngest son came howling and holding his left arm. My wife thought it was broken. When he turned it, his forearm flopped and rolled like it…Victor Joecks -
Battle Over DEI Is Far From Over
The struggle against ideologies that seek to divide America advances in fits and starts. This month, we saw great progress in the introduction of a bill in Congress to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates throughout the federal government. But it was a different story a week later, when lawmakers were lobbing rhetorical softballs at…Mike Gonzalez -
Major Corporations Employ DEI Agency to Feature ‘Underrepresented’ Communities in Commercials
Some of the world’s largest companies are hiring a nonprofit agency to make their commercials appear diverse. It’s called Free the Work, and it matches companies with minorities to star in their photo shoots and advertisements. Free the Work partners with Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Meta, Uber, Haagen-Dazs, Verizon, Target, and others to ensure diversity, equity,…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
How Conservatives Plan to Root Out DEI From Federal Government
A leading conservative grassroots organization is putting its weight behind new legislation introduced Wednesday to eliminate all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and funding for them. Heritage Action for America issued a key vote urging lawmakers to co-sponsor the Dismantle DEI Act, a bill championed by Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Rep. Michael…Rob Bluey -
Dismantling DEI = Restoring Equal Protection of the Law
Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, have introduced the Dismantle DEI Act. The bill, S. 4516, and its House counterpart, HR 8706, are necessary and important bills that would largely put an end to the racist policies being implemented throughout the federal government by the Biden administration under the rubric of diversity,…David Burton -
Bob Woodson Shares Why DEI Is Being Ditched
Some universities are repealing and replacing their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. At the end of May, the University of North Carolina system voted to repeal and replace its DEI policy for a new policy that “aims to ensure efforts to support students on UNC System campuses do not infringe on academic freedom, equal opportunity,…Virginia Allen -
Chris Rufo’s Quest to Abolish DEI
Chris Rufo was in Washington, D.C., last week to accept The Heritage Foundation’s prestigious Salvatori Prize and visited The Daily Signal to share his thoughts on a range of topics. Over the next two days, we will feature his interview on our podcast. For part one today, we cover Rufo’s recent reporting on NPR and…Rob Bluey -
Defeating DEI and Rescuing Higher Education
By April 28, even House Democrats had had enough. A group of them demanded that Columbia University “act decisively” and evict the overtly pro-Hamas protesters who had been occupying the campuses, shutting down education at the close of the semester. Is this the watershed moment? The turn of the tide? Or did that come even…Robert Henneke -
EXCLUSIVE: Federal Farm Credit Agency Plows Ahead With DEI, ‘Queer’ Farming
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A regulatory agency established during the Great Depression to help farmers financially recover from the Dust Bowl is now pushing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility standards and promoting transgender farming. The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency that oversees the Farm Credit System to provide credit to farmers and ranchers, issued…Mary-Grace Byers -
High Court’s 9-0 Ruling Lowers Bar for Filing Anti-DEI Discrimination Lawsuits
A low-profile case decided Wednesday by the Supreme Court could have big implications for employers’ diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Muldrow v. City of St. Louis was a case about a female police officer who alleged that she was transferred from one department to another because of her sex. She argued that the transfer violated…GianCarlo Canaparo