By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Editor of The New Yorker and former Washington Post reporter David Remnick suggested Monday night that the Senate gun control legislation would have made the Boston Marathon bombing "a hell of a lot more difficult to pull off."

"I think this is going well," remarked New Yorker editor David Remnick to his audience at a weekend panel on the tea party movement.
For the past two years, VIDA has released studies showing that such magazines as the New Yorker and the Atlantic devoted far more space to male writers than to women, a ratio that led New Yorker editor David Remnick to acknowledge, "We've got to do better."
"This is a terrifically sad situation, but, in the end, what is most important is the integrity of what we publish and what we stand for," said New Yorker Editor David Remnick.