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The stunning fall of the “woke” boss at CBS News last week was a “head on a stick moment” at the Tiffany Network — and was a case of a divisive executive who had long been viewed as untouchable. ... Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, a 30-year CBS News veteran who was its highest-ranking woman of color — and who abruptly stepped down as president last week after less than a year on the job. The Dominican-born executive — who for years had weathered CBS firestorms including the sexual misconduct scandals that toppled Charlie Rose and “60 Minutes” boss Jeff Fager in 2018...

One of the most striking aspects of the “woke” domination of our education system is the way anyone who is perceived as a dissenter is likely to be targeted, much as members of a primitive tribe will attack someone from an enemy tribe who happens by. Overwhelmingly, the philosophy in our colleges is not “live and let live” but “agree with us or suffer.” If you thought the fine arts might be more mellow, think again. In a pair of cases, music educators have been subjected to academic “herd culling,” as one administrator honestly described his efforts at ridding his...

Brace yourself for the strangest trend yet: RCTA, otherwise known as "race change to Asian," currently has a chokehold on some chronically-online teens. Trends are always popping up and finding new, impressionable victims. In the past couple of years, several TikTokers were found to fake mental conditions ranging from multiple personality disorder to Tourette's syndrome. Now, TikTok users have discovered a small (but growing) movement known as "RCTA," which stands for "race change to Asian." In this case, they usually mean Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. The term was popularized after Rachel Dolezal made headlines for faking her ethnicity. Dolezal, a...

As rockets continue to crisscross the skies between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, as horrific riots break out in cities from Lod to Ashkelon, a more far-flung front has opened up as a result of the violence in Israel: a war for public opinion here in the United States. Just as the scale of the Hamas rocket attack suggests a new phase of an old conflict, so too does a transforming American political culture the rise of a novel foreign policy consensus — one that unites left-wing political players, elite media outlets, online meme culture, and energized activists. After...