‘Making a police state out of the liberal university’

‘What Columbia ought to have finished as a substitute of brutalizing its scholar protesters’

Alexander Sammon at Slate

Columbia College did not should name in a “infamous” New York Metropolis police unit to “descend upon the campus” and arrest “nonviolent scholar protesters” occupying Hamilton Corridor, says Alexander Sammon. Simply up Interstate 95, Brown College confirmed there’s a greater solution to deal with pro-Palestinian scholar demonstrations. Brown’s governing physique voted to divest from firms it believes have facilitated “Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory,” and its “nonviolent scholar protesters agreed to vacate their encampment” the identical afternoon.

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‘An ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu could be a grave mistake’

Nationwide Evaluate editorial board

It could be a “huge, institutionally suicidal mistake” for the Worldwide Felony Court docket to situation warrants for the arrests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different prime Israeli officers, says the Nationwide Evaluate editorial board. If the ICC targets Israel, America’s subsequent. 5 years in the past, ICC “critic-in-chief” John Bolton tried to “defend America and its allies” from the court docket’s attain. A Netanyahu warrant would guarantee that the following Republican administration would “prioritize steps to cripple the court docket.”

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‘Computerized braking on U.S. vehicles will save lives. Biden is correct to require it.’

Los Angeles Occasions editorial board

The Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration’s determination to require computerized emergency braking in vehicles “can save a whole lot of lives every year,” says the Los Angeles Occasions editorial board. The rule makes expertise obligatory by 2029 to “cease and keep away from contact” with vehicles forward at 62 miles per hour. The sensors should “keep away from hitting pedestrians” at 40 mph and detect them at nighttime, when most fatalities happen. It is overdue. There’s “no motive” to “tolerate 41,000 site visitors deaths” yearly.

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‘DEA lastly anticipated to reclassify marijuana’

Joe Lancaster at Purpose

The federal authorities’s determination to “change the way in which it regulates marijuana” is “welcome, however it doesn’t go far sufficient,” says Joe Lancaster. Reclassifying hashish as a much less harmful drug, on par with Tylenol with codeine relatively than, say, heroin or peyote, would imply it is going to “now not be utterly forbidden.” The previous description was “ridiculous,” particularly since so many states have legalized pot. However the subsequent step is nationwide decriminalization. “Marijuana prohibition is an antiquated notion.” 

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