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71% Want Disney to Return to Family-Friendly Entertainment
While LGBTQ activists are happy with Disney’s gay “inclusion” agenda, most Americans wish the entertainment giant would go back to it’s family-friendly roots.
DEI’s Demise: University of North Florida Closes Divisive Department
The University of North Florida closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office on Wednesday, but DEI personnel were given new job titles, rather than being fired.
The former chief diversity officer, Richmond Wynn, was not fired, but given a new title—vice president of community engagement and partnerships.
Over 24,000 Migrant Children Released to Unrelated Sponsors
From January 2015 through May 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released tens of thousands of minors who crossed the border illegally to sponsors who weren’t an immediate or distant relative, raising concerns about human trafficking and forced labor.
Lives Cut Short: A Project to Document Child Maltreatment Fatalities
On May 2, AEI hosted the launch of Lives Cut Short, a project of AEI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) dedicated to documenting child fatalities from maltreatment in the US and understanding the circumstances and policy failures that led to them.
Let’s Stop Romanticizing the Cult of Protest
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question.
Doubting the loftiness of protest invites elite scorn more than any other skepticism about a constitutional right. Proposing limits on free speech, for example, attracts far less outrage. Indeed, people question free speech all the time: in debates about “hate speech,” campaign finance, social media, and more. (Let’s not even get into the fashionableness of questioning Second Amendment rights.)
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Your Front Yard is Non-Functional
A popular website called LifeHack lists 25 things it calls “unnecessary wastes of money.”

All Of The Political Campaign Software And Apps You Need To Win
Candidates seeking elected office need political campaign software to run an effective operation that builds awareness, recruits supporters, and turns out voters.

Lessons from Israel: The Second Amendment is a Vital Safeguard Against the Unthinkable
The tragic lesson following the Hamas attack on Israel is this: after the attack it is too late to obtain a gun permit. The time to be prepared for a hostile invasion of your home is before the attack ever happens.

College presidents jump ship, leave under pressure amid financial woes
The price of a college education is increasing as fast as the questions about its value. Even with record tuition increases, college presidents are departing their positions at an unprecedented rate due to financial and enrollment challenges in higher education.

Pew report shows Americans oppose trans athletes in women’s sports, support treating all people fairly
Americans have differing views on transgender and gender identity policy according to this Pew Research Center study.

Could global warming be from a … volcano?
New research could shed light on the causes of this summer's spike in global temperatures -- and how long they could last. https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1688751117855842304 Yikes -- according to this research, we could see elevated temperatures for the next...
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