Plus: Meet Every Black Life Matters, an Alternative to BLM
June 16 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden appears to support policies allowing male athletes who say they identify as female to compete against girls and women. A mother and daughter who both run track are making some noise about that, Kelsey Bolar reports. On the podcast, Rachel del Guidice talks to the leader of a movement insisting that Every Black Life Matters. Plus: standing up to Putin on missile defense; health insurers anticipate congressional cash; and Navy brass founder over a radical reading list. Sixty years ago today, Rudolf Nureyev, 23-year-old star of the Soviet Union’s Kirov Ballet, defects from the communist regime during a stopover in Paris.
"It was heartbreaking to see that she was running as fast as she could, and still, this [transgender] athlete breezed right by her," Cynthia Monteleone says of her 16-year-old daughter.
Kevin McGary, president of Every Black Life Matters, discusses the contrasts between the Black Lives Matter organization and his own group, critical race theory, and more.
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s summit Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 65 national security specialists urged Biden to put missile defense on the negotiating table.
Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the chief of naval operations, says that Ibram Kendi’s controversial book “How to Be an Antiracist” would lead to “a better Navy” by promoting more discussion on racism.
A broad revolution is underway in the U.S. as traditional standards used to measure achievement and provide opportunity are being rejected in favor of quotas based on race and gender.
The problem here goes well beyond Omar, a Somali refugee who was welcomed to America and now is in Congress, seething with contempt for her adopted country and its tolerant values.
