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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 Racket Transformed Our Colleges, Universities. But Tide Could Be Turning.
College campuses have been dominated by the Left for generations. That’s hardly news to anyone. But a recent news report sheds light on how higher education has been transformed from a general haven of left-wing ideology into an engine of radicalism and revolution in the name of DEI: diversity, equity, and inclusion. The lengthy report… -
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Air Force Colonel in Line for Promotion Preaches DEI Agenda, Endorses CRT Book
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death in 2020, a U.S. Air Force officer—currently awaiting promotion to brigadier general—accused his fellow “white colonels” of being the “biggest barriers” to addressing “racial injustice” in the military and being “blind to institutional racism.” Col. Ben Jonsson’s 825-word commentary in the Air Force Times on July 1, 2020,… -
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On-Campus DEI Bureaucrats Already Ditching New Loyalty Oaths
Will the last diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat to leave their office on campus please turn out the lights? On college grounds today, so-called DEI departments are withering as whistleblowers reveal that the offices have promoted racial prejudice and operated with little transparency—and no measurable results—for years. School officials and lawmakers in states such as… -
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Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, DEI Must Be Destroyed
On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that the embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her disgraceful antics during the Stanford Federalist Society student chapter’s attempted hosting in March of… -
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Attempt to Quantify Impact, Value of DEI at State Department Is an Epic Fail
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 6 informed us that former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, his department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, was leaving the post. Blinken credited her with “a series of other concrete, systemic accomplishments in [diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility].” We now have a two-year track record to assess the “concrete… -
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House Republicans Expose Left’s DEI Agenda at State Department
The bankruptcy of the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology, or DEI, was put on full display this week in the House of Representatives. Republicans not only showed rare pluck in confronting this noxious strategy to use race as a pretext to transform America, but they did it in a way that exposed the strategy’s empty premises. The scene… -
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Chick-fil-A’s Woke Turn Signals Larger Problem of DEI in Corporate America
Chick-fil-A apparently has joined the cultural revolution. Social media was buzzing on Tuesday about Chick-fil-A Inc. announcing the hiring of a vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The announcement made the rounds on Tuesday, though Erick McReynolds has been with the company for 16 years in another capacity and has been involved with DEI… -
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DEI Takes America’s Eyes Off Prize
Focus. That’s the one thing that too many American institutions cannot do these days. Companies, government agencies, and professional groups neglect their basic duties. Instead, they chase the shiny objects of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, and search relentlessly for racism under every rock. Yesterday’s managers have become today’s magpies. What could go wrong? Everything. …