Almost Overnight, Standards of Color-Blind Merit Tumble Across American Society
A broad revolution is underway in the United States as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected by schools, corporations, and governments in favor of quotas based on race and gender.
On just his sixth day in office, President Biden signaled that the nation’s long held principle of equality for all had come to an end, signing an executive order declaring that “racial equity is not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government” equity referring to the idea that merely treating everybody the same is not enough, and that an equal outcome for all people has to be the goal.
UK’s unique opportunity to make ‘Global Britain’ work
Dambisa Moyo
June 09, 2021 22:16
A Royal Navy vessel on patrol near Carbis Bay, Cornwall, ahead of the G7 Summit. (Reuters)
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Skeptics have long argued that the UK is past its peak and trading largely on former glories. They point to the country’s middling rankings in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment education scores, the fact that only one British firm, HSBC, is among the world’s 50 largest public corporations, compared to Germany’s four, and the likelihood that Brexit will ultimately erode, rather than boost, Britain’s global standing.