Today on The Editors, Rich is joined by Maddy, Michael, and Dominic. The panel focuses on two recent proposals by the Biden administration, one covering Title IX and the other concerning electric vehicles (EVs).

Maddy calls the Title IX rule a “cop-out.” “What they’ve done,” she explains, “is strategic in that they’ve explicitly said that you can’t have . . . what they describe as a one-size-fits-all rule banning so-called transgender athletes, but they also don’t give the left what they wanted with the one-size-fits-all permission for so-called transgender athletes. . . . There’s a definite attempt to stake out at least a more moderate appearance. But the reality is it’s just a total cop-out. . . . What this will end up doing in practice is it will deter schools from ever using this exception because the burden of proof is on them.”

On the EV front, Dominic is up in arms. “This electric-vehicle order, it comes from the EPA,” he reminds listeners, “and the EPA wants 67 percent of all new car sales in the United States to be electric vehicles by 2032. Car companies have previously said 50 percent by 2030. The EPA had said that. Now they’re pushing it up even more.”

Even worse, there are multiple entities that aren’t paying attention to the data coming from the other. As Dominic says, “The Department of Energy . . . they looked at sort of long-term projections of EV adoption. And . . . they were projecting that the adoption rate of electric vehicles would be in the highest possible scenario, it would be 28.5 percent by 2050. And the EPA said the other day that it wants EVs to be 67 percent by 2032. So they’re not even on the same planet.”

To hear the rest of this conversation, listen below.