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The federal government took aim on Friday at a small project that helps students seeking business school degrees, along with 45 graduate programs across the country involved with it, as part of a Trump administration promise to dismantle diversity programs. The target is a program called the Ph.D. Project, and its stated mission is to promote the racial diversity of professors in the nation’s business schools, with the idea of “enriching education for all.”

More than 50 universities across the United States are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that officials say exclude white and Asian American students. The U.S. Department of Education announced the probes, which could lead to institutions losing federal funding over "race-based preferences" in admissions, scholarships or any aspect of student life.

The Trump administration is taking another major step in its push to eradicate left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusions programming from institutions of higher education. The Department of Education announced Friday it is launching investigations into 45 universities that maintain racially exclusionary policies tied to graduate programs and six universities that sponsor race-based scholarships. One university is also being investigated for allegedly segregating students based on race.

“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week. I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill. Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant. “You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

Last week, Media Matters (Left bias) released a report claiming that right-wing podcasts, streams, and other long-form audio and video content “dominates the online media ecosystem,” stating further that “9 out of the 10 top online shows assessed are right-leaning.”  An accompanying graphic posted on X has 7.7 million views at the time of this writing; it shows the total following of shows and was posted by Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, who called this asymmetry a “media...