President Donald Trump's executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry. But DEI was already on its last legs. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences. DEI had ...

As a 21-year-old woman who grew up in a Catholic family, I was bestowed with an interesting perspective on feminism and the place of women in our modern society. The Church’s traditional teaching on the role of women often conflicted with my mother’s fiery, determined personality. She and I ...

Let's take a tour of the 13th congressional district in Illinois. It starts in East St. Louis and then moves steadily north. By the time it gets to Springfield, home of Abraham Lincoln, about 90 miles away, it takes a sharp turn to the east, reaching Decatur and finally Champaign, itself ...

PARIS — Barbie's performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it's not Ken, who's famously neutered by design. It's Donald Trump and the rest of the bros virtue-signaling "manliness" like it's a lost art. Barbie dolls were once seen as the exaggerated feminine ideal, until they started ...

HARRISON CITY, Pennsylvania — Eileen Cunningham is a mother of four and grandmother of three with another on the way. The wife of "Goose" Cunningham — when you are from Hazelwood, everyone has a nickname — possesses the unique quality of bringing people together to form communities. How? ...

I spent much of the 1990s as secretary of labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities ...