This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (12:23 - 12:23) The Left’s New Political Strategy is Silencing Speech?: Governors Newsom and Pritzker Target Free Speech of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

• A Free-Speech Lesson for J.B. Pritzker by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

PART II (20:23 - 20:23) A Parable of the Problems with Big Government: The Unmitigated Transportation Disaster of the JCPS Busing System in Louisville

PART III (23:51 - 23:51) Totalitarianism Cracks Down on Grief: China Now Regulating Human Emotion on a National Scale

• When Tragedy Strikes in China, the Government Cracks Down on Grief by New York Times (Li Yuan)