Long is the list of things Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gotten wrong, from guns to immigration to abortion to nonsense culture war salvos compromising academic freedom in the name of protecting it. We pause here to appreciate the spirit of his effort but not the method to safeguard children ...
by Heidi Stevens Barring a cataclysmic event, like the flight from her Tokyo tour getting delayed, Taylor Swift is very likely to be at the Super Bowl cheering for her boyfriend Travis Kelce as his Chiefs take on the 49ers. (Yawn. I wanted Chiefs-Lions.) Which means cameras are very ...
by Alvin Irby Toby Price, an assistant principal in Mississippi, was fired from his elementary school last year for reading the children’s book “I Need a New Butt.” In this silly story, a boy discovers “a crack” in his butt and sets off on an imaginative journey to find a new ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a reprint of a commentary Hoppy wrote a few years ago. This time of year always makes me think of the Christmas catalog. I’m not talking about the season-specific sale circulars you still get in the mail, but rather the all-encompassing catalogs that used to come ...
by Stephen L. Carter “Big Tech loses bid to toss lawsuits alleging social media platforms harmed children,” blared the New York Post. “Social media companies must face youth addiction lawsuits, US judge rules,” said Reuters. Such news coverage of the order from Judge Yvonne ...
by Robin Abcarian The other morning, on the way to school, my eighth-grade niece was regaling me with stories about the costumes kids wore on Halloween. One classmate, she said, came dressed as a “sexy-ass rabbit.” I was taken aback, but not by the image of a middle schooler in ...