Plus: Bloated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staffs Explode Cost of Higher Education
August 3 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Team Biden muddles its message on COVID-19. Let’s get to the bottom line, Doug Badger suggests. Universities expect students’ parents to pay for silly feel-good overseers, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, a formerly liberal ex-cop recounts how he “woke up” about race in America. Plus: House Republicans tout a report finding that the coronavirus escaped a Chinese lab; the mayor of Washington is caught not practicing what she decrees; and how conservatives can woo more black Americans. Twenty-five years ago today, the unlikely dance remix “Macarena” by Los Del Rio hits No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts in a record-setting run.
The woke revolution on college campuses is bolstered by a vast network of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” staffers who gobble up school budgets and enforce left-wing orthodoxy.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 entered the human population in a leak from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology sometime before mid-September 2019, the report finds.
The Washington Examiner, publishing a photo of Mayor Muriel Bowser seated maskless at an indoor table, notes that she “did not wear a mask despite not actively eating or drinking.”
Corporations that condemned Republican lawmakers who voted against certifying the presidential election didn’t criticize or punish Democrats who similarly objected in the past.
