Magazine: 2016-08-11 edition (PDF)
By Metro Weekly Contributor
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August 11, 2016
A new study has found that companies that retained their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or rejected anti-DEI shareholder resolutions performed just as well financially as those that rolled back their policies.
After taking office last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the federal government and among federal contractors. The order also encouraged -- but did not require -- private-sector businesses to abandon DEI policies governing hiring, management, contracting, and suppliers.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who is challenging U.S. Sen. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary, apologized for the hurt caused by controversial remarks he made about transgender athletes following Kamala Harris's loss in the 2024 presidential election.
Moulton, 47, and Markey, 80, sparred during an August 3 debate aired on Boston PBS affiliate WGBH ahead of the September 1 primary. WGBH News' Adam Reilly asked Moulton about comments he made to The New York Times in 2024, attributing Democrats' electoral losses to positions on hot-button cultural issues that he argued were out of step with most Americans.
The board of directors of Log Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative political advocacy group that touts itself as dedicated to "building a more inclusive GOP," announced that it was dropping support for transgender rights from its mission.
Since its founding in the late 1970s, the group has promoted conservative values and policies -- grounded in the constitutional principles of equal protection under the law, limited government, and individual freedom -- while advocating for equal rights and fairness regardless of sexual orientation.
