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House Speaker Race: Nine Republicans Vie for Leadership
After over 20 days without a speaker of the House of Representatives, the GOP hopes this week to finally fill the vacancy. Nine Republicans are currently running for the position. On Monday evening at 6:30 p.m., Republicans will hold a closed-door meeting in the Longworth House Office Building where they will listen to two-minute speeches…Mary Margaret Olohan -
California’s Race Obsession: New Amber Alert Searches Only for Black Youths—and No One Else
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides all Americans with “the equal protection of the laws.” But California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom seems to think this doesn’t apply to the once “Golden” state, since he has now signed into law a bill that creates a special emergency alert—but only for missing black children and no…Mike Gonzalez -
US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions
A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now, it’s suing the U.S. Naval Academy, claiming the academy’s race-based admissions practices are unconstitutional. The group was already successful in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, in which…Hans von Spakovsky -
FAA Should Rely on Ability, Not Race, in Hiring Air Traffic Controllers
Tragedy nearly struck about six months ago when a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest jet came within 100 feet of each other. An air traffic controller somehow had cleared both planes for takeoff and landing on the same runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. Disaster was averted Feb. 22 only because of the…Sean Nation -
NASCAR Driver Out of Races After ‘Liking’ Insensitive George Floyd Meme
NASCAR driver Noah Gragson has been suspended indefinitely after he “liked” a meme on Instagram on Saturday that made light of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis while in police custody on Memorial Day 2020. Legacy Motor Club announced Tuesday that it would replace Gragson, 25, in the seat of its No. 42 race car…Elise McCue -
Reading and Math Scores Plummet as Racial and Sexual Activism Replace Academics
As America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation. With only eight hours per day and 180 school days per year, one would think that everyone from the newest teacher’s…Tony Kinnett -
Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes
In theory, the Pulitzer Prizes are a celebration of the best journalism in America. But in reality, it represents something entirely different. It rewards left-wing journalists for most effectively thumping the tub for the Left. They call it “[elevating] our understanding of the world.” We’ve entered the third year of the Biden administration, and no…Tim Graham -
Critical Race Theorists Admit Their Revolution Is Failing
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform society had hit a rough patch. Surely, they couldn’t be serious? Woke orthodoxy is firmly in place in all the cultural centers and even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Then along…Mike Gonzalez -
San Francisco’s Loony Racial Reparations Proposal Flows From Logic of Woke Ideology
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is talking about ideas to bring racial reparations to the Bay Area. The proposals discussed during a recent board hearing, if adopted, would come with a significant financial cost for taxpayers. More on that in a bit. The entire reparations plan is predicated on the idea that black residents…Jarrett Stepman -
The Woke Wrecking Machine
Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more…Victor Davis Hanson -
Woke Education Hurts America on World Stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville Warns
OXON HILL, Md.—Wokeness is harming education and making America less competitive on the world stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., says. “I want them to have the opportunity that we had,” Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said Thursday during a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside the nation’s capital. During the CPAC forum,…Fred Lucas -
Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.
As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. Biden’s so-called Executive Order on Further…Ben Shapiro -
‘Why We Have to Win This War’ Against the ‘Woke Army,’ According to Asra Nomani
Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom” and co-founder of Save Merit, is emphasizing the necessity of “winning this war against the woke army.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of America depends on our winning this war against the woke army,” Nomani says….Samantha Aschieris -
Well-Intentioned AmeriCorps Now Rotten to Core After Falling to Woke Left
AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that provides stipends for more than 5 million Americans who do volunteer work, misled the public on how much it spends in its grant program. A program launched under President George H.W. Bush, AmeriCorps was expanded under President Bill Clinton and officially became a corps under Bush’s son, President George W. Bush….Roman Jankowski -
Woke Left Pushed to Remove Discipline From Classrooms. Consequences Have Been Tragic, Teacher Says.
Children are always going to misbehave, teacher Daniel Buck says, and that’s why discipline is needed in the classroom. “I think the idea that we’re going to solve misbehavior is kind of utopian,” Buck says, adding that is “what the progressive idea is.” “If we just get the system right, then kids are going to…Virginia Allen -
Texas Universities Demand That Job Applicants Pledge Woke Allegiance
There never has been a better time to combat the publicly funded racist advocacy that has become prevalent in Texas universities. Entire departments at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas spend millions of taxpayer dollars each year on pseudoscientific nonsense—setting divisive standards that are stoking racial tension instead of easing it. One bill…Tony Kinnett -
How Woke Can You Go? Majority-Minority Groups Automatically Disqualified for ‘Food Equity’ Grant If CEO Is White
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance "healthy food equity," but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply. Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified…Tyler O’Neil -
Woke Finance Is Hurting Americans. Here’s How the Hoosier State Is Trying to Stop It There.
The Indiana General Assembly will continue consideration this week of a commonsense bill that would help protect Indiana’s economy and retirees from the threat of the woke environmental, social, and governance movement. House Bill 1008’s purpose is simple: Asset managers who invest for Indiana would be required to make investment decisions based on financial factors,…Rep. Jim Banks -
Florida Shows How Americans Can Fight Back Effectively Against Woke Institutional Power
Americans need to curtail the power of the radicals who control higher education. Perhaps now we have a blueprint to really turn things around. On top of entirely changing the leadership of the New College of Florida, rooting out critical race theory and gender ideology in K-12 schools, and pressuring the College Board into revising…Jarrett Stepman -
10 Woke Offenders: These Companies Push Radical Left Agenda, Fire Conservative Staff
A new database can help conservative consumers identify which companies actively work to promote leftist ideology and, in some cases, fire conservatives. The 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit focused on the dangers of “woke capitalism” that urges companies to be neutral on ideological issues, last month released a database of over 1,000 companies. The database…Katrina Trinko