EDGE on the Net

New York City’s hot race to succeed Mayor Mike Bloomberg just got a lot hotter, but politics took a backseat after all Democratic candidates condemned the New York Post for a snide cartoon about a candidate’s wife’s lesbian past.

Gay men who found themselves pilloried in a now-shuttered U.K. tabloid are jubilant. Nor are they unhappy at the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, the right-hand woman of press lord Ruper Murdoch, who’s behind Fox News.