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House committee investigates Harvard for alleged discrimination in faculty hiring
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
The House Committee on Education and Workforce has launched a federal investigation into Harvard University for allegedly using discriminatory hiring practices. The investigation was announced in a letter written on June 10 by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to Harvard President Alan Garber.

Arizona Board of Regents strips DEI terms from policies
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Campus Reform
The board voted to approve the motion at a June 12 meeting. The board referred to President Trump’s January executive order aimed at banning universities that receive federal funds from promoting DEI. Several public Arizona universities have also complied with the anti-DEI Trump executive order.

On Dobbs anniversary, Senate Democrats aim to restart abortion conversation
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Post (Reader friendly)
Just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Nancy Davis learned that her fetus had a fatal cranial condition. She sought an abortion in her home state of Louisiana, but a “trigger law” took effect shortly after the June 2022 decision. The law banned nearly all abortions in the state, and doctors were unsure if Davis’s case fell within its few exceptions, forcing her to travel to New York to have an abortion. Now, three years post-Roe, Davis worries for patients who may still face the kind of excruciating decisions about their pregnancies that she did. On Tuesday, she will help Senate Democrats as they try to bring abortion and reproductive health care back to the forefront on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

New TX law requires 10 Commandments posted in every public school classroom
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Politico
Translations and interpretations vary across denominations, faiths and languages and may differ in homes and houses of worship. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. [Ed: I expect this law to be struck down by federal judge or SCOTUS.]

The dumbing down of the SAT
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
It seems many Americans aren’t in the know about the significant changes in the Scholastic Aptitude Test over the last year. Even most of those in charge, like our legislators, were “surprised to learn” the SAT (and ACT) even “change at all,” writes Michael Torres at the James G. Martin Center. So … exactly what’s happened with the test? First, the paper and pencil version of it is no more; everything is online in an “adaptive” assessment. This means test takers “are served easier or harder questions in later portions of each section based on their early performance.”

Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico
One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is “making a huge mistake.” But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025. The Senate education committee’s portion of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill includes a new cap on how much people can borrow for medical school and other professional programs that is well below the sticker price most students are facing. Lawmakers are also proposing to nix a class of federal loans graduate students use to cover housing and other non-tuition expenses.

DOJ sues Kentucky officials over providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
"Federal law prohibits aliens not lawfully present in the United States from getting in-state tuition benefits." The Department of Justice has sued Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for offering in-state tuition for illegal immigrants in the state, a policy that the Trump administration has said violates federal laws regarding immigration. According to the lawsuit, "Federal law prohibits aliens not lawfully present in the United States from getting in-state tuition benefits that are denied to out-of-state U.S. citizens," and it adds that there are "no exceptions" to the law. “No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.

Kansas City Public Schools Is Hiring A School Spy to Investigate Students
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Kansas City Defender
Imagine dropping your child off for school, only to find out a former cop was paid by the district to watch them — from your front lawn, from the corner store, from the bus stop. Parents call KCPS’ newest job listing a dangerous escalation of school-based policing, especially in an era of ICE raids and state violence against immigrant families.

China has millions of single men
Topic: Children and Family
Source: BBC News
– could dating camp help them find love? With a staggering 30 million more men than women, one of the world's most populous countries has a deluge of unattached males. The odds are heavily stacked against them finding a date, let alone a wife - something many feel pressured to do. To make matters worse, it's even harder if you're from a lower social class, according to Chinese dating coach Hao, who has over 3,000 clients. "Most of them are working class - they're the least likely to find wives," he says.

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian
He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’. As the country’s oldest and wealthiest university, Harvard’s history is inextricable from the history of transatlantic slavery. The enslaved labored in campus buildings, university presidents and professors owned people forced into bondage, and the school’s wealth grew through a circle of donors intimately connected to the plantation system in the Caribbean, the American south and the trafficking of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.

Danish minister slams Meta’s lobbying amid fight over kids’ social media use
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
Caroline Stage Olsen says she is “furious” over Meta advertising campaign. The blunt intervention from Caroline Stage Olsen — who from July will lead negotiations over potential new regulations to combat social media use by children — is a direct attack on the owner of Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s Instagram has launched a prominent campaign in recent weeks calling for EU-wide regulations to ensure age checks take place at the app store or operating system level, moving obligations away from social media companies

Flesh: the return of the male gaze
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Spiked Online
David Szalay’s latest novel, Flesh, is a confident signal that politics isn’t the only arena to be experiencing a ‘vibe shift’. It is the best sign yet that, after years of literature skewing female and being dominated by identity politics, themes of class and masculinity are back on the literary menu.

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war.
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Guardian (UK)
What hideous, hollow hypocrisy. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades. “They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

No more experiments on children
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Spiked Online
The NHS’s puberty-blockers trial threatens to do irreversible damage to vulnerable youngsters. In saner times, nobody would need to spell this out: puberty is not a problem. It’s not a pathology. It’s not something to be halted, postponed or ‘paused’. It’s a normal, necessary part of growing up. But today, in an upside-down world where truth must tiptoe around ideology, even the most basic biological facts need defending.

The Criminal Justice System Was Found Guilty in the Karen Read Trial
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Reason
No matter how John O'Keefe died, the government failed here on multiple levels. It was inevitable that there would still be more questions than answers following the verdict this week in the case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman acquitted of murder and manslaughter in the death of her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe. But a couple of things about this convoluted story are unambiguous.

A common parenting practice may be hindering teen development
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Science News
Vacation season is upon us. But that doesn’t necessarily translate to teens roaming free. A new poll finds that less than half of U.S. parents feel comfortable leaving their teenager alone in a hotel room while they grab breakfast. Fewer than a third would let their teen walk alone to a coffee shop. And only 1 in 5 would be okay with their teen wandering solo around an amusement park. Those results, released June 16, are troubling, says Sarah Clark, a public health expert and codirector of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, which conducted the survey. Teenagers, she says, need the freedom to develop the confidence that they can navigate the world on their own.

Leftists "Devastated" By SCOTUS Decision Ending Child Trans Experimentation
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Woke activists will never learn. Just leave the kids alone... The abject insanity of the political left cannot be overstated when it comes to the issue of transgenderism. The notion of gender fluidity is built upon a swampy foundation, with a handful of questionable scientific papers primarily backed by pharmaceutical companies acting as the only evidence that trans "identity" has any basis in reality. At bottom, the transgender debate is a perfect example of what happens when science becomes political.

Even Labour is starting to twig that the ECHR is insane
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Britain’s human-rights framework has become a paedos’ charter. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has long baffled and angered the British public. Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without an activist judge, armed with the convention, decreeing that a dangerous, violent criminal must be spared deportation and should remain in the UK. Such decisions are becoming so egregious that even Keir Starmer’s Labour government, which has repeatedly stated its fealty to the convention, has started to call for reform.

The Supreme Court Vs. The Experts
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
The application of the civil-right paradigm to the denial of core biological realities, ones that relate directly to the survival of the species, became too much... When the transgender issue presented itself decades ago, most people felt a sense of politeness and deference to the preferences of another person, however surprising or odd. It all seemed rather harmless, the habits of eccentrics for whom Western society offers remarkable tolerance.