“Tiny Qatar, which has enormous wealth from natural gas, is controversial for its longstanding ties to terrorist groups, including Hamas—whose leadership lives in Qatar—and the use of its state-run news network, Al Jazeera, to influence Arab world affairs and disseminate antisemitic and anti-Israel views,” writes Kredo. “But Qatar has deployed its enormous wealth to buy goodwill and glowing media coverage. One major effort is Media City, where Qatar is hosting media companies as well as major news organizations, and is underwriting some of their newsgathering and production costs. In 2024, CNN opened a bureau in Education City, which was underwritten with state funds, and recently cosponsored Qatar’s annual foreign policy juggernaut known as the Doha Forum.”

Perhaps a system with absolutely zero choice would be less unequal. But short of outlawing private schools entirely or fencing in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York like Communist-era East Germany to prevent parents from moving to suburbs or other places with better schools, and thereby forcing everyone to be equally miserable, any choice is almost unavoidably going to introduce some inequality, just as people are born into families with different resources and talents. (Hannah-Jones has praised the education system in Communist Cuba.)

That nonprofit, the Jacksonville-based Moxie Group, has classified most of its expenses under the “other” category on state filings but failed to file federal tax forms that were due last year and would have shed more light on its expenses. Nixon operates a black power-themed “Cafe Resistance”—which contains a shrine to black convicted cop-killers—in a Jacksonville shopping mall parking lot but operates it as a for-profit company, based on her tax filings. This raises further questions about where her charity's money is being spent.