‘Is Hollywood undergoing a gun reform reckoning?’

‘Hollywood tries a brand new position — gun security advocacy’

Renée Graham in The Boston Globe

Hollywood has lengthy normalized “weapons as cool and enjoyable,” says Renée Graham. However greater than 250 “Hollywood creatives” signed an open letter urging filmmakers to mannequin “gun security greatest practices” extra after the 2022 lethal mass shootings at a Buffalo grocery store and a Uvalde, Texas, elementary faculty. “Now gun security might slowly grow to be Hollywood’s factor.” However the movie trade “has an extended strategy to go to assist make gun safes” as frequent as shootouts on display screen.

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‘Why Democrats are dropping their grip on Latino voters’

Jason L. Riley in The Wall Avenue Journal

Democrats are dropping their benefit with Hispanic voters, says Jason L. Riley. Barack Obama carried this long-reliably Democratic voting bloc by 44 factors in 2012, however by 2020 that margin was right down to 21 factors. And former President Donald Trump’s standing with Latinos has improved since then, regardless of his hardline immigration views. Coverage analysts say “the Democrats’ cultural lurch to the left” has turned off some Latino voters, a lot of whom “put financial pursuits above their ethnic identification.”

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‘The battle towards contraception is already right here’

Mary Ziegler in Slate

Republicans accused progressives of “political fearmongering” after they warned contraceptives have been subsequent after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade’s safety of abortion rights, says Mary Ziegler. “However the issues about contraception’s destiny don’t appear so far-fetched anymore.” An appeals court docket final week handed a victory to a former Texas solicitor common who “masterminded most of the key post-Dobbs anti-abortion methods” and is now attempting to make use of them to undermine teen entry to contraception with out parental consent. 

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‘Need extra girls in tech and STEM jobs… ? Begin in early schooling’

Rachael Gannon in The Oklahoman

Range, fairness and inclusion initiatives assist make workplaces “safer for girls” and enrich “organizational tradition with various views,” says Rachael Gannon. That is significantly essential in science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) fields, the place girls represent simply 35% of the U.S. workforce. Early schooling helps steer extra girls into STEM careers. Corporations can do their half by providing “advantages tailor-made to help girls,” together with complete parental go away and child-care reductions, to interrupt down key “limitations girls face.”

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