In Spiked, Kara Dansky reports on the recent U.S. Supreme Court hearing in United States v Skrmetti, in which the federal Department of Justice is challenging the State of Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones for minors. Dansky scrutinizes the left’s inability to define critical terms like “gender” and “transgender”, and reflects on what the case’s outcome could mean not only for gender ideology but for girls and women.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.