POLITICS & POLICY

A Chinese student who lodged a suit over school textbooks describing homosexuality as a mental disorder shows a textbook she refers to before going to the court in Beijing, China September 12, 2016. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) On the menu today: A Chinese court upholds a ruling permitting a textbook description of homosexuality as “a psychological disorder,”
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Today on The Editors, Rich, Michael, Jim, and Maddy discuss the allegations being leveled at Governor Cuomo, Trump’s CPAC speech, and the uproar over some of Dr. Seuss’s books. Listen below, or subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of the
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C ancel culture has many faces. Few reveal the ugliness of the impulse more clearly than banning books. This time, the target of the book-banners is perhaps the most beloved American author of all: Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. The culprits include Seuss’s own heirs, the Biden administration, and
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Charlie has a good post below on the new standard at CNN, where suddenly Chris Cuomo can’t cover his brother now that he’s no longer the subject of 24/7 media adulation. At this rate, Andrew Cuomo is going to become the biggest flameout of a media darling since Michael Avenatti, also undeservedly showered with attention
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( Jetta Productions/Getty Images) The head of the Los Angeles teachers union condemned California’s plan to reopen schools as “propagating structural racism,” after the deal was announced on Monday. Governor Gavin Newsom reached the deal with state lawmakers to provide $2 billion in financial incentives for schools that reopen various grades for in-person learning by
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A vial and syringe are pictured in front of the Johnson&Johnson logo, January 11, 2021 (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans is asking Catholics to avoid the recently-approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which it says is “morally compromised” by its “extensive use of abortion-derived cell lines.” In a statement on Friday, the archdiocese
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Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (center) poses with Mexicans veterans who have been deported from the United States in Tijuana, Mexico June 3, 2017. (Jorge Duenes/Reuters) Representative Vicente Gonzalez (D., Texas) on Monday warned that President Biden’s immigration policies will be “catastrophic” for the country and the Democratic Party. In an appearance on CNN, Gonzalez expressed growing
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State attorney general Letitia James in New York, November 19, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New York attorney general Letitia James announced on Monday that her office has received a referral from the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo, allowing for an independent investigation of harassment claims against him. Former aide Lindsey Boylan has accused Cuomo of kissing
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer address the media after several dams breached, in downtown Midland, Mich., May 20, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Michigan Republicans are calling for an investigation into Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s policy that forced long-term care facilities to accept coronavirus-positive patients. In letters to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and acting U.S. Attorney General Monty Wilkinson
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at a vaccination site in Brooklyn, N.Y., February 22, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday responded to recent allegations of sexual harassment by former aides by saying that he was “being playful” at work, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.)
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Alan Jacobs, author of many stimulating books, has been penning stimulating thoughts on his blog about Amazon’s decision to remove Ryan Anderson’s book, When Harry Became Sally, from its digital shelves. You can find a series of his thoughts on the matter, here (on Big Tech as a wing of the Democratic Party), and here
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 28, 2021. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Former president Trump disavowed speculation that he would start a third party on Sunday, in his first public speech since leaving office. Since Trump’s defeat at the hands of Joe Biden in November, some Republicans have
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers remarks on the coronavirus at the Riverside Church in New York City, November 15, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York politicians criticized Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday following a second allegation of sexual harassment. Former health policy adviser Charlotte Bennett alleged that the governor harassed her in spring 2020, in
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Michael Madigan, speaker of the Illinois Representatives, listens to the State of the State address at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., in 2012. (Sarah Conard/Reuters) For decades, Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan dominated the state’s political system, corrupting it to his own ends. What should we make of his ouster? The Chicago machine
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House speaker Nancy Pelosi at a news conference prior to the vote on the coronavirus-relief bill, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2021 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The House narrowly approved Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus-relief bill early Saturday morning, in a tight 219-212 vote that mostly fell along party lines. The bill contains $1,400 direct payments for most Americans,
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, June 12, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Friday urged the New York State legislature to open an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo brought by his former staffer, Lindsey Boylan. The progressive congresswoman told reporters that
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The Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. (anyaivanova/Getty Images) One classical scholar believes that the field is too implicated in ‘whiteness’ to survive as-is. Here’s why he’s wrong. Rachel Poser’s recent New York Times profile of Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta comes across as both glib and ominous. Referring to Padilla’s mission, the headline
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) slammed The New York Times during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. Amid the nationwide protests and riots following the death of George Floyd, an African American man
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent looks out over Tijuana, Mexico from the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego, Calif., February 2, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Axios reported yesterday that border officials were projecting “a peak of 13,000 unaccompanied children crossing the border in May.” A new Wall Street Journal report suggests even that might be conservative;
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