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The Truth About Critical Race Theory

_{Trump is right. Training sessions for government employees amounted to political indoctrination.}_{Christopher Rufo
October 4, 2020}

Moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump during last week’s debate why he “directed federal agencies to end racial-sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or critical race theory.” Mr. Trump answered: “I ended it because it’s racist.” Participants “were asked to do things that were absolutely insane,” he explained. “They were teaching people to hate our country.” “Nobody’s doing that,” Joe Biden replied. He’s wrong. My reporting on critical race theory in the federal government was the impetus for the president’s executive order, so I can say with confidence that these training sessions had nothing to do with developing “racial sensitivity.” As I document in detailed reports for City Journal and the New York Post, …

“Safe Injection Sites” Aren’t Safe, Effective or Wise. Just Ask Canadians

_{Christopher Rufo
October 2, 2020}

If you've never heard of "safe injection sites" — public facilities for drug users to consume heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine under the supervision of medical staff — you probably will soon. In cities such as Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco, drug legalization activists have launched a campaign to create such sites.

Defending American Values, and History

_{Christopher Rufo
September 18, 2020}

Attacking critical race theory as “ideological poison,” President Trump reminds us that our government is based on individual rights, equality under the law, and merit.

Against Wokeness

_{Conservatives must understand the threat posed by critical race theory.}_{Christopher Rufo
September 17, 2020}

Whether it comes to racism or any other sin, few Americans believe that all members of any group are inherently innocent while all those of another are inherently guilty. Adherents of critical race theory do believe this, though — and they’re aggressively teaching it. Our leaders must expose critical race theory as the destructive ideology that it is.

Even after Trump Ordered an End, Federal Agencies Still Push Insane ‘Critical Race Theory’

_{Christopher Rufo
September 15, 2020}

President Trump is taking on the odious ideology known as critical race theory, or CRT. Kudos. But the right must prepare for a long war.

Obscene federal ‘diversity training’ scam prospers — even under Trump

_{Last month, a private diversity-consulting firm conducted a training titled "Difficult Conversations About Race in Troubling Times" for several federal agencies.}_{Christopher Rufo
July 17, 2020}

Critical race theory — the far-left academic discourse centered on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white fragility” and “white privilege” — is coursing through the federal government’s veins. Under a GOP administration, no less.

The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

_{Vancouver’s experiment with safe-injection sites is a dead end for addicts—and a public-health risk.}_{Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020}

As cities in the United States, including San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle, consider opening their own safe-injection sites, they should understand the full consequences of these practices.

Cult Programming in Seattle

_{The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.”}_{Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020}

Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”

The End of Chaz

_{In Seattle’s “autonomous zone,” lives are destroyed under the banner of social justice.}_{Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020}

Early this morning, a phalanx of Seattle police officers, armed with long batons and semiautomatic rifles, cleared out the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Seattle can now begin to reckon with the damage.

Antifa Makes Its Move

_{Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020}

Behind the scenes, antifa has done the unthinkable: establish political power in major American cities.

Counsel of the Woke

_{Public-health experts have subordinated science to progressive politics.}_{Christopher Rufo
June 19, 2020}

America has reached an epistemological breaking point.

The State of CHAZ

_{Seattle’s autonomous zone has become a laboratory experiment in social justice as governance.}_{Christopher Rufo
June 16, 2020}

Seattle’s autonomous zone has become a laboratory experiment in social justice as governance.

Anarchy in Seattle

_{Antifa-affiliated activists seize control of a city neighborhood and declare an “autonomous zone.”}_{Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020}

Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

_{Fueling America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic.}_{Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020}

Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic.

Economics in the Age of Trump

_{Policy maverick Oren Cass challenges the orthodoxy of “growth for growth’s sake.”}_{Christopher Rufo
May 6, 2020}

Policy maverick Oren Cass challenges the orthodoxy of “growth for growth’s sake.”

To Hell with Main Street?

_{It’s time to reassert the authority of we the people.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 27, 2020}

In times of trouble, Americans rally around a common cause. After Pearl Harbor, we liberated much of the world; during the Cold War, we sent a man to the moon. There was a shared sensibility that Americans were unified in pursuit of the highest ideals. But after some shocks, this sense of unity proves short-lived — and shortsighted.

Chaos by the Bay

_{San Francisco responds to the coronavirus with an experiment in lawlessness.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020}

An odd pattern has emerged in San Francisco as the city responds to the Covid-19 pandemic. The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max — lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority.

A Rorschach Epidemic

_{Covid-19 reveals the immense variety of our own preoccupations.}_{Christopher Rufo
April 1, 2020}

The coronavirus has swallowed up everything. Its microscopic image — a grey mothball with small red crowns emanating from its core — is found in every newspaper, website, and television program around the world. Though the virus remains mysterious, it has revealed much about us.

The New Favelas

_{A West Coast experiment with sanctioned homeless encampments has proved disastrous—and Covid-19 might make it even worse.}_{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2020}

A West Coast experiment with sanctioned homeless encampments has proved disastrous—and Covid-19 might make it even worse.

Growth Without Virtue

_{The coronavirus reveals an economy that has lost its moral foundations.}_{Christopher Rufo
March 26, 2020}

The coronavirus reveals an economy that has lost its moral foundations.