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Christopher Rufo
November 25, 2024
Robert McCoy
Trump Leans on This Disturbing Figure to Threaten Public Universities
Donald Trump has called on Christopher Rufo.
March 14, 2024
Magazine
Alexander Nazaryan
Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors
Team Trump is doing something this time around that it didn’t think to do in 2016: It’s planning. And wait until you see what those plans include.
January 4, 2024
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools
Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.
December 13, 2023
Paul Waldman
Liz Magill Was Practice. The Right Really Wants to Get Claudine Gay.
These mostly bogus plagiarism charges are the latest blunt weapon in the right’s war on universities as poisoners of young people’s minds.
November 27, 2023
Magazine
Moira Weigel
Christopher Rufo’s Troubling Path to Power
His incoherent attacks on critical race theory are only one part of a much larger plan for counterrevolution.
November 2, 2023
Tori Otten
Christopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects
The conservative activist is prepared to take his dangerous ideas to the next level.
October 24, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
DeSantis’s War on “Woke” Colleges Gets Even More Absurd—and Dangerous
A proposed rule for Florida’s public campuses would muzzle advocacy of issues “that polarize or divide society among political, ideological, moral, or religious beliefs.”
October 12, 2023
Edith Olmsted
Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten
The teachers union head denounced the “extremist strategy,” which also includes voucher campaigns and manufactured outrage over critical race theory.
February 17, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Christopher Rufo Claims a Degree from “Harvard.” Umm ... Not Quite
The activist who is now a leading education policy figure on the right actually matriculated at Harvard Extension School. There’s a difference.
January 11, 2023
Jack McCordick
A Florida College Goes to War With Ron DeSantis
As the governor plots to topple Sarasota’s New College, the students of the historic liberal arts institution prepare to rise in its defense.
August 30, 2021
Max B. Sawicky
How the Critical Race Theory Scaremongering Failed in Virginia
The right bought race and trans hysteria to school board meetings in once scarlet-red Loudoun County. But guess which side won?
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