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It’s not a news week in the book world without some headline about censorship. Whether it’s about a book deal getting dropped after the author was racist on Twitter or a trans kids’ book getting banned from storytime, there’s always someone claiming cancel culture, censorship, or first amendment violations. So who’s right? What counts as
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New York is on the precipice of legalizing cannabis for recreational use. Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have reached an agreement on a plan to tax cannabis products and license dispensaries, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The agreement, the details of which are currently being finalized, clears the way for a vote that could come
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It was shortly after Eddie Huang got out of an Italian jail cell and was in the doghouse with his third TV show that he thought: “Maybe it’s time to make that coming-of-age sports movie I’ve been thinking about.” To hear the 39-year-old raconteur, Renaissance man, and director of the basketball drama Boogie tell it
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AstraZeneca has defended its use of coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities suggested some results from a large American-led trial may have been based on “outdated information”. The Anglo-Swedish company said the study showed the jab was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 illness and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalisation. The trial of
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out his most specific set of remedies yet for how the government should modify Section 230, a decades-old rule that gives Internet platforms like his sweeping legal immunity from all posted content. In prepared testimony ahead of an appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday, Zuckerberg suggested removing the blanket immunity
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