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Bring Back the SAT
California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite.
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Confessions of a Former DEI Officer
Michael Yassa led a DEI office at UC Irvine in 2020. Now he says it was all performative.
Maya Sulkin
1HR 10M
This Week in Canada: Your Anti-Racism Is Not Anti-Racist Enough
Guess why a white male professor didn’t get the job, the Trump administration wants our guy’s Gmail accounts, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
Should We Feel Sorry for White Men?
A viral essay started a conversation about anti-white discrimination. We asked some of our contributors what they thought.
The Editors
Why I Cut Ties with Science’s Top Publisher
After years reviewing and publishing with Nature Portfolio’s journals, I can no longer support its shift from scientific rigor to ideological activism.
Anna Krylov
Inside Harmeet Dhillon’s Civil Rights Revolution
From fighting DEI to suing blue states, Harmeet Dhillon is remaking civil-rights law in the age of MAGA.
Eli Lake
Is the ADL Inadvertently Making Antisemitism Worse?
Researchers conclude that its anti-hate curriculum provokes defensiveness, but the group says it has overhauled what it teaches.
Tanner Nau and Frannie Block
How Zohran Mamdani Could Kill New York’s Schools
I ran New York City’s school system under Mayor Bloomberg. And I’m alarmed by the socialist’s plans.
Joel Klein
How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Publishing More Racist
Adam Szetela talks about what happens when the internet mob meets the editor’s desk.
Coleman Hughes
1HR 2M
The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published
A young poet pretended to be ‘a gender-fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora,’ and wrote intentionally bad poems. He says he got 47 of them published.
River Page
This Scientist Says MIT Ruined His Life. Now He’s Fighting for Redemption.
David Sabatani is battling sexual harassment accusations that he says were part of a ‘DEI-inspired purification.’ Can he win?
Suzy Weiss
Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, they tell The Free Press.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
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