The online news publication Vox recently brought attention to our lawsuit challenging California's "woman quota" for the boards of publicly traded companies. We're grateful that the article's author, Alexia Fernández Campbell, engages in a thoughtful debate rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks. Still, her article misstates key facts about t ...
New York City’s education chancellor Richard Carranza recently suggested the city’s “Gifted and Talented Programs” for students be changed or scrapped because of supposed racial inequality. This summer, PLF wrote about the multiple discrimination controversies surrounding Carranza’s tenure as education chancellor. ~~~ ...
America's civil rights movement ended the legalized segregation that forced black students into separate—and very much unequal—schools. But decades later, the quality of education for too many of the country's minority children has still not improved. And unfortunately, instead of fighting for better-quality education for all students regardles ...
For the past couple decades, my block has hosted a party to celebrate our nation's birth, replete with all the typical summertime Americana: seed-spitting contests; a potluck; red, white, and blue bicycle parades; a Batman bounce house (which is our contribution as the parents of two young boys). It's a scene that plays out in ...
This is the third in a five-part series dedicated to exploring the lives, ideas, and contributions of the five individuals most directly responsible for the founding of the United States. Without the courageous actions of James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, America would not be the country that it ...
Joel Greenwald can't dance. If you ask him, he'll say that he has "three left feet." His son Zachary, however, loves to dance. Zach loves dancing so much that in seventh grade after he was told competitive school dance teams are only for girls, he kept dancing with a private studio. Meander through the Father's ...