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Two of three speakers at the engineering school’s ceremony disappeared abruptly from the school’s graduation website. A self-described “fourth-generation Trojan” from Pasadena, Ms. Blain, who has spent much of her life imagining her own U.S.C. Pro-Palestinian students tried to set up an encampment on campus days later, and university officials summoned the Los Angeles police. At the engineering school, where Ms. Tabassum, the valedictorian, will be graduating, professors were trying to resurrect her chance to speak. A university committee had picked Ms. Tabassum, who is Muslim and of South Asian ancestry, from about 100 undergraduates with near 4.0 grade point averages.

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☆ Greg Lukianoff Is Getting Back to the Basics on Free Speech on Campus - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At colleges and universities across the country, from Cal Poly-Humboldt to Columbia, students have been protesting against the war in Gaza. The protests have generated another round of discussion (and endless takes on the internet) about free speech on college campuses. What about universities that purportedly champion free speech suddenly deciding that maybe there’s such a thing as too much freedom of speech? And, personally, I want to know why we pay so much attention to Ivy League schools most of us didn’t go to. I spoke with Greg Lukianoff, the president and C.E.O.

Persons: Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott Organizations: Cal Poly, Humboldt, Ivy League, Foundation, Rights, FIRE’s Student Network Conference Locations: Columbia, Gaza

☆ Mike Gallagher on Why Conservatives Want TikTok Sold - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last month, the House passed a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company to sell its U.S. business to a company without ties to the Chinese government, or face a ban of the TikTok app in the United States. In Washington, which has become increasingly hawkish toward the Chinese government, worries and fears about the Chinese Communist Party’s role in ByteDance are widespread. But outside Capitol Hill, millions of people — especially younger Americans — use TikTok everyday for entertainment and increasingly for search. Representative Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican, is a co-sponsor of the legislation — he’s about to leave Congress but if this becomes law, it will have an effect on social media and U.S.-China relations long after his departure. Many lawmakers in both parties are concerned about the effects of social media on teens.

Persons: Mike Gallagher, Donald Trump’s Organizations: Communist, Wisconsin Republican Locations: United States, Washington, ByteDance, Hill, China

☆ Brad Wilcox Thinks American Culture Is Undervaluing Marriage - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As of 2021, around 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans are not married — the highest percentage ever recorded. While divorce rates have plummeted from their early 1980s high, fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place. Yes, around two million Americans get married every year (and you probably have the save-the-dates on your refrigerator door to prove it). I spoke with Mr. Wilcox about getting married, staying married and whether the government should help individuals find partners. How did we get to this point where, as you write, we are seeing the “closing of the American heart”?

Persons: —, aren’t, “, Brad Wilcox, Wilcox, Jane Coaston Organizations: University of Virginia

☆ What MAGA World Gets Wrong About the N.F.L. and Taylor - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The National Football League is an American cultural behemoth: Ninety-three of 2023’s 100 most-watched television broadcasts were N.F.L. Among those who will be watching the game is National Review senior editor Charles C.W. A native of England, Cooke has become an avid football fan (specifically, of the Jacksonville Jaguars) and has written about his growing understanding of America’s one true national sport. He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole. As Cooke wrote in National Review, “Online, one can say that Taylor Swift is a ‘Deep State psyop’ and prompt a million Lost Boys to clap their hands in glee.

Persons: —, Charles C.W, Cooke, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, ’, ” Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, National Football League, National Review, Jacksonville Jaguars, Chiefs, National, Boys, 49ers Locations: American, England

☆ Why Haley Could Win and Why Trump Could Win New Hampshire - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump won Iowa and wants to win New Hampshire and seal up the nomination. Nikki Haley wants to come from behind, win New Hampshire, and gain some momentum before heading to her home state of South Carolina. What matters to people in New Hampshire? So I spoke with Dante Scala, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire and an expert in presidential primaries and New Hampshire politics. Jane Coaston: We spoke just before the Iowa caucus and you said that you believed that Nikki Haley was in a strong second place in New Hampshire after Chris Christie’s exit from the race.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Trump, they’re, Pat Buchanan, Dante Scala, Jane Coaston, Chris Christie’s Organizations: Iowa, New Hampshire, Republican Party, University of New Locations: New, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Hampshire, Iowa, New England, University of New Hampshire

☆ Oren Cass Wants a Different Kind of Republican Economics - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When you shift the axis of debate, that all gets scrambled. Coaston: You mentioned a little bit about in your writing and in our conversation about wanting less adversarial relationships between management and labor. But hypothetically, let’s say if a hospital only offers its nurses two weeks of paid parental leave and the nurses want more, isn’t that just going to be adversarial? I say black and you say white. Cass: Well, negotiations always have an adversarial element insofar as to your point, the two sides want different things.

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☆ Republican Sandy Senn Wants Voters to Have a Say on Abortion - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Republicans have struggled politically with the issue of abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade — a point proven several times over with anti-abortion measures failing in relatively conservative states. Just this month, Ohio added abortion rights to the State Constitution and Republicans lost control of the Virginia Statehouse. In South Carolina this year, State Senator Sandy Senn was one of three Republicans who, along with a fellow Democratic senator and an independent senator, filibustered efforts to severely restrict abortion in the state. The “sister senators,” as they call themselves, were ultimately unsuccessful in preventing a six-week abortion ban from taking effect. Jane Coaston: How did you react to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and how did you think Republicans at the state level would react?

Persons: Roe, Wade —, Sandy Senn, Senn, ”, Jane Coaston, Dobbs, Wade Organizations: Constitution, Republicans, Virginia Statehouse, Democratic, South Carolina Legislature Locations: Ohio, South Carolina

☆ Don Bacon Explains the Chaos in the Republican House - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

You talked in your campaign for the House about your conservative values. The Freedom Caucus they see themselves as defenders of conservative values. Well, some of the stuff I read today sounds parallel to that, too. I’m getting all the stuff sent to me, and it’s just not true. If you find out that Ukraine sent weapons to Hamas, would you tell me?

Persons: it’s, There’s, They’re, I’m Organizations: Caucus, Freedom Caucus, Republicans, Criminal, Party Locations: Europe, Ukraine

☆ Opinion | ‘The Entire Debate Was a Gong Show’: Winners and Losers From the Second Republican Showdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

Matthew Continetti Governor Haley is an excellent communicator, but her message was often lost amid all the cross talk. Daniel McCarthy In this debate, Governor Haley decided to play the role that Vivek Ramaswamy played last time, frequently interrupting and attacking others. Matthew Continetti Governor DeSantis is not an exciting debater, but he remains the most plausible alternative to Donald Trump. Jane Coaston He really, really, really wanted to fight Donald Trump, who was not present. His worst moment was a canned line in which he compared Donald Trump to Donald Duck (Disney defamation suit to follow).

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☆ Charles Fain Lehman on Why the Right’s Going Tough on Crime - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Charles Fain Lehman: One reason is what appeared to be a durable decline in crime and violence in particular. You can’t get criminal justice reform without the libertarian movement, the Dr. Ron Paul movement. Coaston: What do you think the influence of libertarian views on criminal justice reform has been on the right? I’m skeptical of state power, skeptical of state abuse. A lot of what the federal criminal justice system does is very boring day-to-day enforcement stuff that is extraordinarily important for public safety, public well-being.

Persons: Charles Fain Lehman, can’t, Ron Paul, There’s, Lehman Organizations: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives

☆ How Brad Polumbo Sees the Rise in Anti-L.G.B.T. Rhetoric on the Right - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

community, though, I always joke when people talk about the Black community, I’m like, what? Polumbo: I think I’ve accepted the rhetorical framing of the L.G.B.T. I also think that I’m completely supportive of the rights of transgender adults to live their best lives however they see fit. But I’ve never truly understood the lumping in or connection of transgender issues and gay rights issues. What would a conservatism that was more — embracing isn’t the right word — but more congenial to L.G.B.T.

Persons: they’re, It’s, I’ve, it’s, I’m Organizations: Republican Party Locations: Ohio, New York, Silicon

☆ G.O.P. Candidates Don’t Want to Talk About Abortion — Kristan Hawkins Demands They Do - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But I think our role as a social movement is not to be simply a wing of the Republican Party. Our job is to be that standard-bearer of holding that North Star up, saying this is where we’re going. Eighty percent of Americans disagree with the notion that abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth. Thirteen percent of Americans believe abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. Sixty-nine percent of Americans believe that abortion should be legal within the first three months of pregnancy, a record high for the polling organization.]

Persons: Hawkins, don’t, “, Kristan Hawkins, who’s, ”, that’s Organizations: Republican Party, North Star, Democratic National, Gallup

☆ A Conversation With a Trans Republican Elected Official - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m a Republican, but it’s getting harder and harder each year. Yes, they’re in the past, they’re in black-and-white photos, but the past is what gives us a guide as principle for the future. American, I’m a transgender American. I actually believe, if you’re transgender, one of the most conservative things you can actually do is live your authentic self. Coaston: You were one of the first out trans people to attend a Republican National Convention back in 2016.

Persons: I’m, Eisenhower, Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt —, they’re, That’s, Williams, Caitlyn Jenner, ” Organizations: Republican, Republican Party, Republican National Convention Locations: American

☆ Opinion | L.G.B.T.Q. in America: ‘We Are Never Going Back to the Closet Darkness’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

So?,” by Jane Coaston (Opinion, July 24):Ms. Coaston’s report reveals both a fearsome and an exciting new world for the L.G.B.T. This world could not be more different than most older gay Americans’ experience growing up. I recall the very day and hour, at age 6, that I knew I was gay, although I wouldn’t know what that meant for many years. Boys are cool!”Seeing another gay person, or hearing any speck of validation for gay people, would seemingly never come to me in my more-conservative-than-Mississippi community in South Jersey. But we are a community now with many, many straight allies, and no matter what the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world have to say about it, we are never going back to the closet darkness.

Persons: Jane Coaston, Coaston’s, speck, Marjorie Taylor Greenes Locations: Mississippi, South Jersey

☆ Opinion | Evangelicals Once Backed Jimmy Carter. How Did Politics Take Over?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many white evangelical Christians love Donald Trump — a fact of American politics that has shaped the makeup and rulings of the Supreme Court, the culture and morality wars waged by the Republican Party and the political evolution and power of evangelicals themselves. At the same time, some forms of evangelical Christianity are becoming less Christian, with believers less likely to attend church and less likely to embrace some of the faith’s most bedrock beliefs. How did millions of Americans go from “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” to Mr. Trump, who appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine? It was never ordained that he would become a man compared to biblical figures. As Jon Ward sees it, truly understanding American politics right now requires us to have a much more nuanced and informed perspective on evangelical culture and history.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jon Ward, Ward, God, ” Organizations: Republican Party, Playboy

☆ More Visible L.G.B.T. People Isn’t A Curiosity or Crisis — It’s Normal - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Then, he said, there was an idea that “a certain amount of gender transgression was spectacular. As long as it’s still in that realm, it’s OK and it’s entertainment.” But he told me that when L.G.B.T. But the vast majority of people are straight and cisgender, and the vast majority will no doubt be so in the future. There’s been an objective increase in the number of visible L.G.B.T. There is no maximum number of people on earth who can be trans before we face civilizational ruin or planetary collapse.

Persons: K.J, Rawson, he’d, “, Hugh Ryan, Ryan, ”, Isaac Schorr, There’s Organizations: Northeastern University, Transgender

☆ A Conversation with Spencer Cox About Utah’s Teen Social Media Law - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The effects of phones and social media on teenagers — and adults — continues to be at the center of public health, tech, civil liberties and more. In March, Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed an extensive package of laws intended to limit kids’ access to social media platforms, including time restrictions and requirements that parents and guardians have access to private messages and posts. Utah’s laws were among the first in a tranche of actions by state governments, like those of Montana and Louisiana, which have greatly limited access to certain social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, either for minors or all users. Some researchers have alleged that social media is responsible for increases in anxiety and depression. But the governor told me he wasn’t worried.

Persons: —, Spencer Cox, ”, balk Organizations: Republican, Utah Locations: Montana and Louisiana

☆ Trump’s Candidacy: Evaluated by 11 Opinion Writers - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As seriously as the winter wind, blowing in the same bare place, with the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. There is no such thing as a safe race against Donald Trump. Nicole Hemmer If you haven’t learned to take Trump seriously as a candidate by now, nothing will convince you. But as the front-runner for the nomination and someone with a penchant for destroying democratic institutions, we should take his candidacy very, very seriously. Donald Trump leads his nearest rival by about 32 points.

Persons: Jane Coaston, Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, David French, Donald Trump, Michelle Goldberg, Biden, Trump, Nicole Hemmer, Jonathan Last, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Organizations: Republican, Trump

☆ Chris Christie: Columnists and Writers Discuss His 2024 Candidacy. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Republican candidates enter the race for their party’s 2024 presidential nomination, Times columnists, Opinion writers and others will assess their strengths and weaknesses with a scorecard. This entry assesses Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey. Candidate strength averagesHow seriously should we take Chris Christie’s candidacy? Michelle Cottle As a potential president, not very. As someone who could rough up Trump for the entire field — a political picador of sorts — he has potential.

Persons: Chris Christie, Chris Christie’s, Frank Bruni, Donald Trump, he’s, Jane Coaston, Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat Organizations: Republican, veep, Trump Locations: New Jersey, He’ll, Jersey

☆ Chris Christie Will ‘Do Some Vengeful, Spiteful Jersey Jitterbug on Them.’ Our Columnists and Writers Discuss His Candidacy. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Mike Pence Is ‘a Rebuke of Trump’s Presidency’: Our Columnists and Writers Weigh In on His Candidacy - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Republican candidates enter the race for their party’s 2024 presidential nomination, Times columnists, Opinion writers and others will assess their strengths and weaknesses with a scorecard. This entry assesses Mike Pence, the former vice president. He is polling well enough to be part of the Republican primary debates. Ross Douthat On paper, a former vice president known for his evangelical faith sounds like a plausible Republican candidate for president. But in practice, because of Pence’s role on Jan. 6 and his break with Donald Trump thereafter, to vote for Trump’s vice president is to actively repudiate Trump himself.

Persons: Mike Pence, Mike Pence’s, Frank Bruni, Kamala Harris, Chris Licht, Jane Coaston, Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Donald Trump, Trump Organizations: Republican, CNN

☆ Jerry Springer Created a World Where We All Act Like Guests on His Show - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But I don’t think Mr. Springer’s defense of his show as simply a mirror rings true. Mr. Springer wasn’t a ringmaster; he was a tutor, and he was teaching his guests how to be exactly what his audience clamored to see. Mr. Springer might say he didn’t want this legacy. He once claimed that he wanted his television show to be serious, with serious interviews with serious people. Mr. Springer oversaw it all and tried to convince us that it was normal.

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