DEI Has Lost All Meaning
We can’t debate its merits when we don’t agree on what it is.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2010, he was the features editor at Culture11 and a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
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