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LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (May 15): Durham Releases Report on Trump–Russia Probe; DeSantis Stops Funding for DEI in Florida Colleges

After three years of investigations, special counsel John Durham has released the report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into former President Donald Trump. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill stopping funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida’s colleges. Meanwhile, Trump criticizes DeSantis for Florida’s new six-week abortion ban. New…


NTD Evening News (May 15): Durham Releases Report on Trump–Russia Probe; DeSantis Stops Funding for DEI in Florida Colleges

After three years of investigations, special counsel John Durham has released the report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into former President Donald Trump. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill stopping funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida’s colleges. Meanwhile, Trump criticizes DeSantis for Florida’s new six-week abortion ban. New…


Sen. Johnson Condemns Cancellation of Anti-DEI Speaker at Medical School

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has denounced the cancellation of a researcher on diversity, equity, and inclusion, John Sailer, by the Medical College of Wisconsin. “Students should be able to freely explore different concepts, ideas, and worldviews so they are equipped to lead successful lives inside a free and open society. Instead, higher education has increasingly…


Virginia GOP Asks State to Investigate University Costs, Including DEI Departments

Virginia Assembly’s top Republicans asked the state’s governmental watchdog group to study the cost efficiency of public universities and, more specifically, the increasing cost of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) departments on college campuses. Republicans, Speaker of the House Del. Todd Gilbert, and House Majority Del. Terry Kilgore sent a letter to the executive director…


Equity and the Race to the Bottom

Commentary Over the last few years, the rallying cry of “woke” activists has become “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (often abbreviated to DEI). There is little reason to object to such principles on the surface. After all, America was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Unfortunately, the meaning of words can change over time….


How to Defeat the Woke Apparatus

Commentary Have you ever wondered what the woke industrial complex actually means? Over the past century, several iterations of Marxism have been rolled out in a number of nations. In recent years, the woke movement in America has displayed eerie similarities to the language and behaviors associated with these Marxist doctrines practiced in autocratic regimes….


America’s Most ‘Woke’ Employers: Here’s How Disney Ranked

On Forbes’ 2023 list of “America’s Best Employers for Diversity,” The Walt Disney Co. ranked No. 98, beating out such companies as Nike, Bank of America, and Netflix. To compile the list of the top 500 companies, Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to survey 45,000 American workers at companies with at least 1,000…


The Growing Consumer Revolt Against Woke Ideology

Commentary It’s likely true: no executives at Anheuser-Busch knew what the Bud Light marketing people were planning when they decided to deploy an absurdist and deeply offensive transgender TikTok influencer to sell their beer. But soon after it happened, public disgust became rather obvious. The crisis began but for weeks, the company was in denial….


The House GOP Effort to Defund—Not Police, but Wokeness

News Analysis Through executive orders and budget requests, the Biden administration has sought to embed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles across the entirety of the federal government—and in turn to touch the lives of every American. Now members of the Republican House majority, who see this whole-of-government effort as a woke assault on America and its core values, are…


The Big DEI Gulf on Campus: It’s Much More Than He Said/Ze Said

The fight over academic freedom on campus increasingly comes down to a fight over three letters—DEI—which goes a long way to explaining the fissures now tearing higher education apart. For progressives committed to social justice advocacy, academic freedom must shield the prevailing academic consensus on race and gender from outside political pressure. Nowhere is that…