The Trump administration's new executive order targeting DEI contractors  is built on false premises, enforced by intimidation, and invalidated by the administration's own conduct. Here is what you need to know to be able to explain why this order is not rational or just in any way.   On March 26, 2026, the Trump administration issued an executive order declaring that so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion" activities by federal contractors constitute racial discrimination.   The order...

High school students are not wrong to seek belonging, meaning, recognition, and a sense of moral clarity. Adolescence is a developmental period marked by identity formation, heightened sensitivity to social reward, and vulnerability to opportunities that promise certainty, purpose, and status. When young people are invited into a cause that frames itself as virtuous, patriotic, and embattled, especially one that flatters them as brave truth-tellers resisting imagined oppression, it can be...

“In a test of a recent Supreme Court ruling, a parent is suing Lexington Public Schools to have his child excused from LGBTQ+-themed instruction and readings that he claims violate his religious beliefs.” - Boston Globe, November 13, 2025 There is a sharp disparity between the emotional heat of this issue and the simplicity of the principle that resolves it: private belief cannot supersede public tolerance . No one can require public spheres to reflect and uphold their preferred exclusionary...