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A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado's flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana. This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it. To uphold white, privileged groupthink as an officially accepted worldview, the Boulder Faculty Assembly voted for more of it last week. They censured CU President Mark Kennedy, a man who has arguably done more than any other single person to diversity a campu...

A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado's flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana. This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it. To uphold white, privileged groupthink as an officially accepted worldview, the Boulder Faculty Assembly voted for more of it last week. They censured CU President Mark Kennedy, a man who has arguably done more than any other single person to diversity a campu...

Federal investigators have signaled some of the defendants in the attack on the U.S. Capitol could be charged with seditious conspiracy, a law enacted to target those who attacked the federal government during the Reconstruction era. An indictment filed on Jan. 27 charges three of the riot suspects with conspiring to impede Congress' certification of the Electoral College vote for the 2020 presidential election. The filing alleges those three are members of the Oath Keepers, "a loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been co-opted by a shadow...

After Oath Keepers charges, could feds accuse Capitol attackers of conspiring to overthrow U.S. government? Kevin McCoy and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY US Capitol Police officers faced violent attacks from pro-Trump supporters during riots Replay Video Federal investigators have signaled some of the defendants in the attack on the U.S. Capitol could be charged with seditious conspiracy, a law enacted to target those who attacked the federal government during the Reconstruction era. An indictment filed on Jan. 27 charges three of the riot suspects with conspiring to impede Cong...

Dressed entirely in pastoral black and sitting at a long, mahogany-colored desk in her sunlit office on a mid-December Sunday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Joanne Walker Flowers has an undeniably captivating presence about her.  She is flanked on one side by vibrant poinsettias supplying Christmas cheer. On the other stands a coat rack that holds her formal pastor’s vestments and a dark blue cap with insignia denoting that she had achieved the rank of commander when she retired from the U.S. Navy years ago. She jokes that she keeps the cap in a prominent spot to remind anyone who might doubt he...