Jill Filipovic, CNN.COM, March 21, 2023 The Florida GOP is on a truly stunning tear of misogyny, ignorance, homophobia and censorship, culminating in a bill that just passed the Florida House that would bar young girls from discussing menstruation, including their own menstrual periods, in school. Fifty three years since Judy Blume wrote “Are You
New York Times (as published in The Boston Globe), By Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, March 17, 2023. The nitty-gritty process of reviewing and approving school textbooks has typically been an administrative affair, drawing the attention of education specialists, publishing executives, and state bureaucrats. But in Florida, textbooks have become hot politics, part of Governor
By Brent D. Griffiths, Nicole Gaudiano, and Juliana Kaplan, Business Insider, March 13, 2023 Some Republicans blamed “woke” investment strategies for Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall. Economists say the bank was squeezed by high interests rate and a balance sheet laden with Treasury bills. The GOP has increasingly portrayed itself as against “wokeism” in all aspects
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, February 22, 2023 DeSantis is not simply inveighing against progressive control of institutions. He is using his powers as governor to remake them. In the context of other universities—the sort of assessment the Princeton Review’s guidebooks might do—New College of Florida, situated on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico,
Jane Smiley, The Daily Beast, February 18, 2023 BANS DON’T WORK When I read that my 1991 novel “A Thousand Acres” was on a list of books banned in Idaho I was delighted because the only thing this ban will achieve is people wanting to read it. I have to admit that a few days
By Molly Jong-Fast, Vanity Fair, February 16, 2023 Florida’s wannabe autocrat and possible 2024 contender isn’t Trump, but he’s as dangerous to democracy. Trumpism without Donald Trump has long been a fantasy of the GOP donor class. Plenty of things about the Trump presidency generally delighted Republicans, like the tax breaks for the wealthy, the desire to
By Fabiola Cineas, Vox.com, Feb 15, 2023 From book bans to a hostile campus takeover, here’s a rundown of DeSantis’s conservative plan for Florida education. In 2020, Ron DeSantis’s administration declared him the “Education Governor” for how eager he was to dramatically change the state’s education system. Three years later, he’s provoked — and been
By Pamela Paul, Opinion Columnist, The New York Times, February 9, 2023 Is there anything liberals can do about Ron DeSantis other than quietly seethe, loudly condemn him every time he makes headlines and hope that his political flaws — his distaste for glad-handing, his less-than-inspiring public-speaking style, his conspicuous unlikability — will take him
By Jill Filipovic, CNN, February 6, 2023 The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals has handed domestic abusers a win — and made it easier for their violence to turn deadly. The court held in United States v. Rahimi that a federal law banning those with domestic abuse restraining orders from gun ownership was unconstitutional.
Opinion by Leslie Kay Jones, CNN.com, Feb 3, 2023. As a student growing up in Florida, I vividly recall my International Baccalaureate English teacher inviting students to read “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in their best voice impressions of a formerly enslaved Black woman. She smirked as they giggled out phrases like “de nigger woman
A close look at the course reveals just the sort of interdisciplinary rigor students need to succeed. By JOSHUA ZEITZ, Politico.com Magazine, January 31, 2023 Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House. Follow him @joshuamzeitz. In the latest escalation of America’s ever-present political culture war, Florida
By Erika Bliss, Joan Fleischman and Michele Gomez, New York Times, January 22, 2023. Drs. Bliss, Fleishman and Gomez are co-founders of the My Abortion Network and primary care doctors who provide abortions as part of their primary care practices. Jewel is a student in her early 20s who lives in Texas. When her doctor
By Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), The Boston Globe, January 24, 2023. The House Republican plan for the debt ceiling is about protecting the wealthy and the well-connected from paying their fair share in taxes — nothing more and nothing less. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and extremist Republicans are running a con game. They claim their
By David Leonhard, New York Times, February 2, 2021. Graphics by Yaryna Serkez Mr. Leonhardt is a senior writer at The Times. Ms. Serkez is a writer and graphics editor for Opinion. A president has only limited control over the economy. And yet there has been a stark pattern in the United States for nearly
By Jack Stripling, Washington Post, January 5, 2023. Joseph A. Ladapo, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida and the state’s surgeon general, relied upon a flawed analysis and may have violated university research integrity rules when he issued guidance last fall discouraging young men from receiving common coronavirus vaccines, according to a
By John Fetterman, Democracy Docket, January 5, 2023 When I decided to run for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, I knew this wouldn’t be a typical campaign. I’m not a typical candidate, and this is not a typical time. I announced my campaign just days after the Jan. 6 attack on our Capitol, with our country
By Jim Hightower, Tribune Media, Dec 28, 2023. The craziest political word of the year is “woke,” as in “Don’t be woke!” It’s a command barked by far-right-wing fomenters of a hokey culture war and their political toadies. Their intent is to demonize and shut up schoolteachers, preachers, librarians, historians, musicians, students, websites, business executives and
By Robert B. Hubbell As we enter 2023, there is no escaping the fact that we are beginning the long march toward the presidential election of 2024. As we start that journey, we have every reason to be confident about our ability to rise to the occasion. We did so in 2022, as we did
Two years marked by big bills and new coalition By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021 mob siege of the Capitol and is closing with unprecedented federal criminal referrals of the former president over the insurrection — all while conducting one of the most consequential
By Robert B. Hubbell, December 15, 2022. At a moment of scientific triumph for the world, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pinned his presidential ambitions to an anti-science platform that seeks to criminalize the action of scientists who saved tens of millions of lives in the face of a deadly pandemic. As noted briefly in yesterday’s
By Jim Saunders News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers began moving quickly Monday to pass major property-insurance changes, with supporters saying the plan would stabilize the troubled system and critics saying it would hurt consumers. Sen. Danny Burgess, R-Zephyrhills, said lawmakers need to take action as homeowners across the state face large rate
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