Daniel Mollenkamp

In late 2024, right before Donald Trump started his second term, the man in charge of Palantir Technologies donated $1 million to the Trump-supporting super political action committee, MAGA, Inc. Alexander Karp, the executive, later led the company as its predictive software helped select targets for deportation raids, amid harsh targeting of immigrants across the […]

Glossy videos and photos on Briarcrest Christian School’s website highlight racially diverse groups of students laughing and playing.  Their marketing language promotes a “place of belonging,” within a firmly religious context.   Briarcrest, the private school behind these ads, enjoys a reputation for academic success in Shelby County, Tennessee — part of the cradle of the […]

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential contest, as Donald Trump attacked mail-in voting and spread misinformation about widespread voter fraud, Public Interest Legal Foundation founder and president J. Christian Adams had a message for the activists at a closed-door gathering at the Council for National Policy. “Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re […]

La’Nita Johnson considers herself somewhat lucky. After the Trump administration mass-fired foreign assistance workers, she found work as a visiting professor at her alma mater and continued to build a consulting business. That involved a pay cut that wrecked her financial stability, as a tenured foreign service officer focusing on education initiatives.

La’Nita Johnson considers herself somewhat lucky.  After the Trump administration mass-fired foreign assistance workers, she found work as a visiting professor at her alma mater and continued to build a consulting business.  That involved a pay cut that wrecked her financial stability, she said.  Before the cuts, Johnson was a tenured foreign service officer, focusing […]

An Emancipator investigation examining 74 disability advocacy groups found that around thirty percent of well-funded organizations that receive significant federal grants and contracts likely changed their language around diversity, equity and inclusion since President Donald Trump took office. The Emancipator investigated this sector since federal funding pays for much of the work of many disability […]

President Donald Trump’s recent clawback of nearly 3 million acres of protected land in Utah represents the largest removal of land from federal monument status in American history, an Emancipator investigation found. It is more than five times the amount of land all previous presidents combined had removed from monument status.    The land included Bears […]

A major digital accessibility deadline that impacts schools and vendors is here. Schools aren’t ready.

As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to a chatbot ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human

Driven by the rise of ‘school choice,’ companies are trying to help parents navigate K-12 education options.