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College Campus Protests Are a Byproduct of K-12 Education: Tent encampments, violent protests, and defiant students are taking over the campuses of many of America’s most prestigious higher education institutions. In some cases, Jewish students have been forced to leave mid-semester, classes have been canceled or moved to remote only, and buildings have been barricaded by pro-Palestinian protesters. Read More

The Frat Boys of Summer v. George Soros: Just in case you missed it, here is the drawing that’s been making the rounds of frat boys posed like the U.S. Marines of the Okinawa memorial raising the American flag on campus.

Miranda Devine celebrates “frat boy summer” as the “backlash against an epidemic of arrogant entitled women”:

Behold the “frat boys” unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting “USA, USA, USA,” and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas colors and barricade themselves in university buildings. Read More
 
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If They Can Erase Sisterhood, They Can Erase Women

The Tenth Circuit finally gave us a day in court to fight for something we never thought we’d have to: the right to live and associate with other women. Sorority sisters were pressured by the Kappa Kappa Gamma headquarters to initiate a male—going so far as to force sisters' votes to be public and warning them that voting against the male would be a sign of bigotry, a basis for expulsion from Kappa. So after months of begging for the sorority the women were promised, they sued. Read More
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Phil Primetime I Carrie Sheffield: Against Student Loan Forgiveness Watch

OutKick The Morning | IWF Files Lawsuit Against Biden’s Illegal Title IX Rewrite Watch 

O’Connor & Company | Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Becomes First Female Governor To Stand up Against Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Listen

The John Steigerwald Show | Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Absolutely Impacts Women’s Sports Listen

The Denver Gazette | What Is a Woman? Let the People Decide Read

The New York Sun | France’s Macron, Having Realized Europe Is Mortal, Turns to a Rendezvous With Communist China’s XI Jinping Read

The Washington Times |
Feminists Accused of ‘Selective Outrage’ Over Muted Reaction To Israeli Women Brutalized by Hamas Read 

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New Social Security Trustee Report Shows Dire Need for Fiscal Reforms

The Social Security trustees released their annual report this week on the financial health of this program for the coming 75 years, and things aren’t looking rosy. Social Security is on the brink of a crisis, and America needs an intervention to keep this program available for generations to come. Read More

IN THE NETWORK

Debate Prep: Anti-Israel Campus Protests, Russia Holding Drills With Tactical Nuclear Weapons, and Israel Offensive in Rafah

Each week, IW’s policy experts work together to craft talking points that help us deliver our messages as effectively as possible. IW spokeswomen use these very same focal points to prepare for media appearances, and we want our members to have access to the same prep materials so that you can debate these issues with community officials, school officials, and even your family, friends, and neighbors. Read More

TWO TRUTHS & A LIE

Two Truths and a Lie: Campus Protests

Protests on college campuses are taking place across the country, but there’s a lot of confusion about the line between free speech and punishable action.

Can you spot the lie?

A. The vast majority of universities are heavily dependent on federal money, so taxpayers should have a say about what happens on campus.
B. Congress cannot demand decorum on campus amidst anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic protests.
C. Universities have no obligation to restrain campus protests.
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CAPSULE REVIEW

First Reported Wind Generation Decrease in 30 Years

A new Energy Information Administration (EIA) report revealed U.S. wind energy generation (onshore and offshore) decreased by 2.1% in 2023, despite the sector adding 6.2 gigawatts of new capacity power. If the Biden administration was serious about promoting clean energy without destabilizing our grid and our economy, it would encourage nuclear energy. Read More

‘$50 Billion’ Chicago Teachers Union Contract Demands Higher Pay and Lower Expectations

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has kicked off a season of contract negotiations by issuing a $50 billion list of demands that will enrich the union at taxpayers’ expense and provide little, if any, benefit to the city’s students. Right now, Chicago Public Schools delivers terrible results at a very high cost. Last school year, the district spent more than $21,000 per student—well above the national average of $14,347. And on the last Nation’s Report Card, only 21% of the city’s eighth graders were proficient readers. Read More
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