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The Daily Signal covers how woke left ideology drives cultural and political division across education, media, and public life. Featuring investigative reporting, analysis, and commentary, this section highlights the consequences of identity-driven activism and the left’s progressive agenda in America.
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    Woke Companies Fail in Efforts to Hurt States Passing Conservative Legislation

    Corporate America: heavy on threats, light on action. After the big blow-up in Georgia, most businesses probably thought they’d scared the daylights out of Republicans by going on MSNBC and ranting against the state’s election law. Turns out, the people who should be scared are the woke CEOs. Not only did Major League Baseball’s All-Star…
    Tony Perkins
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    Woke but Broke: How US Colleges Are Pricing Students, Themselves Out of Business

    Whether their leaders realize or admit it or not, American colleges and universities are on the verge of a crisis. And it’s a crisis, by and large, of their own making. The National Association of Scholars last month published a report by Neetu Arnold, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” which finds, among other things,…
    Allen Mendenhall
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    Woke Corporations Adopt Hypocritical Playbook on China

    It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    We Hear You: Georgia Elections, Baseball, and Woke Corporations

    Editor's note: The misrepresentation of Georgia's new election law by politicians and activists on the left is a serious matter to The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling of your reaction from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you for the many well-researched and incisive articles covering the lies and hypocrisy in…
    Ken McIntyre
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    The Left Wants Kids to See White Supremacy Everywhere, and It’s Destroying Pop Culture

    “Certain elements of our community are threatening to get people fired,” tweeted Yale professor Nicholas Christakis on Apr. 3. “Even if someone just poses a question, or expresses a conflicting view, you’re immediately labeled a problem, a white supremacist, and people will say, ‘Find out where they work.’” Christakis was quoting an excerpt from a…
    Douglas Blair
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    The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites

    Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Woke Capitalism Strikes Again in Georgia

    If the problem of “woke capitalism” wasn’t apparent before, the battle over Georgia’s new election integrity law has drawn it out into the open. The law, which adds voter ID requirements to absentee voting, extends some early voting, and places some restrictions on activist activities at polling places, has been billed by Democrats and President…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    We Hear You: Awake or Woke in America

    Editor's note: Judging from your emails, many in The Daily Signal's audience don't recognize the "woke" country around them and long for a return to normal. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I awoke at 5 one recent morning like something had hit me in the head. It was…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Woke Educators’ War on Tests

    Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores. There are seemingly legitimate reasons to oppose the tests….
    John Stossel
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    Cancel Culture Comes for All: How 10-Year-Old Tweets Cost This Journalist Her Job

    Alexi McCammond, 27, was widely considered an up-and-coming young journalist after her time working as a political commentator for Axios news. She had been hired as the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue magazine and was all set to start, before it was revealed that she had made some tweets that many considered anti-Asian and homophobic…
    Douglas Blair
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    The History Behind the ‘Woke’ Invasion of Big Business

    Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Some Liberals Are Getting Sick of Cancel Culture

    A mounting discontent with “cancel culture” is emerging, even in some liberal circles. On a recent episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher dedicated a monologue to the cancel culture phenomenon. Maher is very much a man of the left, and of course used some of his time to attack Republicans. But he also noted…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    We Hear You: Cancel Culture Reaches a Galaxy Far, Far Away

    Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience isn't happy about a star of Disney+'s "Star Wars" prequel series "The Mandalorian" being fired for her conservative-leaning posts on social media. Here's a sampling, with some related mail. Don't hesitate to write about our coverage to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Douglas Blair's commentary, I think what…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Here Are Some Books the Woke Left Would Replace Dr. Seuss With

    As you likely have heard, the latest casualty of cancel culture is Dr. Seuss. And because nature abhors a vacuum, the woke left has a list of books as ready replacements it would prefer that children read instead. The late children’s author Dr. Seuss, aka Theodor Seuss Geisel, has come under fire for drawing a…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Woke Math Spreads to Oregon

    “Woke” education is not just coming to history, social studies, and the humanities. A recent report by Fox News explained how the Oregon Department of Education encouraged teachers to take “ethnomathematics” training to aid in “dismantling racism in mathematics.”  Oregon educators did the training, called the “Pathway to Math Equity Micro Course,” in partnership with…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Navy Task Force’s Report on Diversity Challenges Misses Its Mark

    Like many other Americans, I watched events of this past summer in horror as violence roiled our streets from Seattle to Atlanta and its inevitable climax on Jan. 6 at the Capitol.  I took time then to have “the talk” again with my eldest daughter and made prudent decisions as to when and where we…
    Brent Sadler
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    If France Can Reject Wokeness, So Can We

    An interesting piece in The New York Times highlights a ferocious blowback against woke ideas in France. Yes, France. “The threat is said to be existential,” foreign correspondent Norimitsu Onishi writes, adding: It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage. The threat? ‘Certain social science theories entirely imported…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    In the Woke Revolution, Facts Are Irrelevant

    Does the truth matter? Not if you’re the woke president of the San Francisco School Board, apparently.  A revealing interview by The New Yorker with the San Francisco School Board president, 30-year-old Gabriela López, gave some insight into the mindset of a public school board that just decided that 44 of its schools needed to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood

    Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we…
    Larry Elder
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    Is the Wisdom of Homer Immune to Cancel Culture?

    Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists. Or, as one Massachusetts high school teacher recently boasted on social media,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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