CGC Journal - MAY 2025
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MAY 2025 | ISSUE 22
America’s Culture War: ‘IMPROPER IDEOLOGY’
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Current Events - America’s Culture War: ‘Improper Ideology’
Emily’s Corner - Breaking through political propaganda with specificity
Talking With Kids - Adult Influences on Children
Recommended Resources - Mike - The Second Founding: How Reconstruction Remade the Constitution; Emily - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
SPECIAL INVITATION INCLUDED IN THIS MONTH’S CGC JOURNAL. LOOK FOR THE COMMUNITY CONVERSATION SCHEDULED FOR MAY 16.
America’s Culture War: ‘Improper Ideology’
By Mike Green
On April 30, 2025, President Donald Trump completed 100 days in office as the 47th President of the United States. During that time, he issued 143 Executive Orders, the most of any president in American history. Within the volume set of executive orders issued during the Trump administration’s first 100 days is a subset of 12 that we are highlighting in this issue of the CGC Journal. See the list with links below.
Order 14151 January 20, 2025
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
Order 14173 January 21, 2025
Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
Order 14190 February 3, 2025
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
Order 14253 March 27, 2025 Fact Sheet
Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History
Order 14189 January 29, 2025
Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday
Order 14224 March 1, 2025
Designating English as the Official Language of the United States
Order 14242 March 20, 2025
Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States and Communities
Order 14280 April 23, 2025
Reinstating Commonsense School Discipline Policies
Order 14281 April 23, 2025
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
Order 14279 April 23, 2025
Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
EO (Order number unknown; related to Order 13798) May 1, 2025
Establishment of Religious Liberty Commission
EO (Order number TBD) May 1, 2025
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media