‘Republicans needed a crackdown on Israel’s critics. Columbia obliged.’
Michelle Goldberg in The New York Occasions
“You do not have to love anti-Israel language or activism to be anxious about congressional calls for to suppress it,” says Michelle Goldberg. After Republicans on a Home panel investigating campus antisemitism grilled Columbia College’s president, Nemat Shafik, about pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activism, the college began “cracking down,” calling in police to arrest dozens at a “Gaza solidarity encampment.” Shafik emerged “largely unscathed” by the GOP’s newfangled McCarthyism. “All that is been broken is Columbia’s assure of educational freedom.”Â
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‘May fossil fuels re-elect Biden?’
The Wall Avenue Journal editorial board
President Joe Biden’s “greatest financial success is one thing he has accomplished every little thing in his energy to thwart,” says The Wall Avenue Journal editorial board. The “economic system he touts” expanded by 2.5% final 12 months, and states driving America’s file oil manufacturing “led the way in which” whereas development remained “sluggish” in different components of the nation. “Privately financed fossil-fuel manufacturing is doing way more to spice up the U.S. economic system” than Biden’s large “spending on electrical autos and inexperienced power.”
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‘Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are within the WNBA now. Cease telling them to “play good.”‘
Frankie de la Cretaz at CNN
Girls’s basketball lastly acquired the “type of viewers it deserves” this 12 months, says Frankie de la Cretaz. The NCAA Championship Sport, through which the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks beat famous person Caitlin Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes, drew a whopping 24 million viewers. However together with the eye got here “harsh, undeserved” criticism of the gamers, together with Clark and LSU’s Angel Reese, each WNBA-bound, for his or her trash-talking. “This criticism is sexist — how usually can we count on males to play good?”Â
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‘It isn’t simply David Chang. Movie star cooks are sellouts.’
Raj Tawney at Bloomberg
It is good that David Chang apologized and dropped his firm Momofuku’s effort to trademark the time period “chili crunch,” says Raj Tawney. However that is “customary harm management for a preferred chef” attempting to guard a culinary “empire.” This debacle exhibits how the “wacky idea of a ‘superstar chef'” hurts the “meals business.” The extreme commercialization has “induced what was the star — the meals — to take a backseat” to the “sellouts” preening for the cameras.
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