Giving kids more freedom encourages skills entrepreneurs need

Helicopter parents, the 'Trump Train' and that free speech column we promised yesterday but somehow forgot to post. Here's we go. 

Helicopter parenting

What happens when, from birth through post-college “adulting” classes, there’s always a well-meaning parent or professional standing right next to them, coaching, teaching, high-fiving, helping them get a leg up – sometimes literally?

• Helicopter parenting may be destroying American entrepreneurship

Today’s editorial cartoon

• Coronavirus editorial cartoon gallery

Suing the 'Trump Train' 

Throughout the Biden-Harris tour of Texas, the campaign bus was a lightning rod for President Donald Trump’s supporters. Their “Trump Train” followed us for days through Texas, with members displaying weapons, pushing, shoving, shouting death threats and even trailing us in a hearse.

• Trump Train ambush previewed the Capitol attack. We're suing to stop the violence

Wait, there's more

• Why universities should defend, not censor, offensive speech
• Darnella Frazier grieves another Black man killed by police
• Sha'Carri Richardson, you used pot to grieve. That shouldn't kill your Olympic dreams.

This newsletter was compiled by Louie Villalobos