https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/how-desantis-motivated-florida-conservative-policies/629679/

Some of those states have pushed the envelope on abortion and other culture-war issues, but the clear vanguard of Republican policy-making creativity at this moment is in Florida.

Push the envelope 限界を超える

behemoth 巨大なもの

vanguard 先駆　avant-garde

brag 自慢　boast

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/ukraine-apologizes-to-japan-for-linking-former-emperor-to-hitler

pacifist 平和主義者　pác・i・fist/ ‐fɪst /

Japan has joined its ally the U.S. and other leading democracies in sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and has broken with its pacifist tradition by sending non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine.